John K. Hillers photographs of Ute and Paiute people
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 87-2N
name: label: Creator
content: Hillers, John K., 1843-1925
place: label: Place
content: Colorado
label: Place
content: Arizona
label: Place
content: Utah
creator: label: Creator
content: Hillers, John K., 1843-1925
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Basin
label: Culture
content: Paiute
label: Culture
content: Ute
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: John K. Hillers (1843-1925) immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1852. He spent almost twenty years photographing Native Americans and the landscape of the Indian Territories, California, the Southwest, and the Southeast, largely for the Bureau of American Ethnology and the United States Geological Survey. He began work on the Survey as a boatman on John Wesley Powell's second expedition down the Colorado River in 1871. He soon became the assistant, and then the main photographer (1872) for the expedition. From 1879 to 1900, Hillers served as the first staff photographer of Powell's Bureau of Ethnology, and in 1881 he took pictures for the United States Geological Survey.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 37 Albumen prints (mounted)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1871-1874
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: This collection was found in 1972, along with other collections in Photo Lot 87-2, as something which had been set aside as a "problem collection," though this may only reflect that it was unprocessed.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.87-2N
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The collection consists of photographs depicting Ute and Paiute people, mostly informal portraits, with some individuals holding baskets, bow and arrows, and rifles. The photographs may have been made on a Powell expedition. Many of the prints are the same as those normally used to make stereographs, and the mounts appear to be pages removed from an album.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs by John K. Hillers can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 14, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 28, Photo Lot 40, Photo Lot 143, Photo Lot 83-18, Photo Lot 90-1, Photo Lot 92-46, and the BAE historical negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds Powell's inventory of photographs made on expeditions 1871-1875 (MS 1795-c).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds Hillers's diary from 1871-1872 and 1874, 1875 (MS 4410).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Duke University, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at University of California at Berkeley, University of Oregon, Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley, and Southern Methodist University also hold photographs by Hillers.