Photographs of Gay Head Indians of Martha's Vineyard
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot R81-51
label: Reproduction Note
content: Copy prints made by Smithsonian Institution, 1981.
label: General note
content: Historical background published in Laura E. Conkey, Ethel Boissevain, and Ives Goddard, "Indians of Southern New England and Long Island: Late Period," Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 15, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978.
place: label: Place
content: Massachusetts
label: Place
content: Martha's Vineyard (Mass.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
culture: label: Culture
content: Gay Head Wampanoag
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: The Gay Head Indians resided in the Martha's Vineyard region as early as 1642. The tribe continues to remain relatively isolated and maintains strong tribal identity, partly due to its reservation location on the extreme western peninsular point of the Vineyard and strict tribal membership laws.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 77 Copy prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Original photographs loaned for copying by Dukes County Historical Society, now the Martha's Vineyard Museum, in 1980-1981.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.R81-51
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Portraits
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Portraits
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals note
content: Originals in Martha's Vineyard Museum in Edgartown, Massachusetts.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs depicting Gay Head Indians including portraits as well as images of people at Martha's Vineyard Beach, in boats, near their homes, and on or around trains. Many of the copies were made from case photographs. The collection also includes photocopies of the original photographs with identifications by Gale Huntington, a lifetime resident of Martha's Vineyard.