Alexander W. Chase photographs of Klamath, Modoc, and Tolowa people and material culture
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 2003-10
name: label: Creator
content: Chase, Alexander W.
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated by Jean Prentiss through Thomas Blackburn in 2002.
creator: label: Creator
content: Chase, Alexander W.
culture: label: Culture
content: Modoc
label: Culture
content: Klamath
label: Culture
content: Tolowa
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Plateau
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- California
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content: Alexander W. Chase photographs of Klamath, Modoc, and Tolowa people and material culture
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Alexander W. Chase (1843-1888) worked as a surveyor for the US Coast Survey from 1862-1878, during which time he visited several reservations near the San Francisco Bay area and southern Oregon. As an amateur artist, photographer, and ethnologist, he recorded his observations of the daily life on the reservations in a journal. He published his documentation of a visit to the Alsea Reservation in a newspaper article for the Topeka Daily Capitol, dated Sunday, November 27, 1887. He also published a longer paper on the Siletz Reservation in 1869. Additionally, he contributed  ethnographic and archaeological data, photographs, and sketches to Stephen Powers' monograph, Tribes of California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9 Photographic prints (albumen, mounted on paper)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1870
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.2003-10
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Powers, Stephen. Tribes of California. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1877.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Studio portraits of Klamath, Modoc, and Tolowa Indians made by surveyor Alexander W. Chase while working for the US Coast Survey. Also included are photographs of artifacts from his ethnographic and archaeological collection. The photographs are mounted on brown paper with handwritten descriptions; two newspaper articles, including Alexander Chase's own article for the Topeka Daily Capitol, are glued to the back of two of the pages.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photo Lot 24 contains four cartes des visite by Chase of Maidu individuals "Captain Tom" and his wife, daughter, and son.

The records of the NMNH Department of Anthropology contain some of Chase's original sketches for Tribes of California.

Additionally, the NAA also holds MS 3230, a manuscript by Chase on the shell mounds of oregon, and the records of the Bureau of American Ethnology contain correspondence between Chase and BAE anthropologists.
label: Publication Note
content: The photographs in this collection are published in 

Thomas Blackburn, "Some Additional Alexander W. Chase Materials," Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 25, no. 1 (2005): 39-54.