Native American Public Programs photograph collection relating to Native American artists and art
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 91-26
name: label: Collector
content: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Native American Public Programs
label: Photographer
content: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Printing and Photographic Services
label: Photographer
content: Clark, Chip, 1947-2010
label: Photographer
content: Hansen, Carl C.
label: Photographer
content: Hart, Alan
label: Names
content: Lewis, Lucy M.
label: Photographer
content: Long, Eric
label: Photographer
content: Minor-Penland, Laurie
label: Photographer
content: Penland, Dane
label: Collector
content: Ringlero, Aleta Pima
label: Photographer
content: Strauss, Richard
label: Photographer
content: Taccone, Christina
label: Photographer
content: Vargas, Rick
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Brule

Sioux

Creek (Muskogee)

Apache

Santo Domingo (Kewa)

White Mountain

Luiseno

Pima (Akimel O'odham)

Navaho

Lenape

Papago (Tohono O'odham)

Iroquois

Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)

Assiniboin; Assiniboine

Santa Clara

Standing Rock Reservation
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Handicraft
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Collector
content: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Native American Public Programs
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- California
label: Culture
content: Paiute
label: Culture
content: Jemez Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Mewuk (Miwok)
label: Culture
content: Yurok
label: Culture
content: Cherokee
label: Culture
content: Tewa Pueblos
label: Culture
content: Tlingit
label: Culture
content: A:shiwi (Zuni)
label: Culture
content: Assiniboine (Stoney)
label: Culture
content: Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux)
label: Culture
content: Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
label: Culture
content: Lenape (Delaware)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Tohono O'odham (Papago)
label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Basin
label: Culture
content: Akimel O'odham (Pima)
label: Culture
content: Hopi Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
label: Culture
content: Onondaga
label: Culture
content: Muscogee (Creek)
label: Culture
content: Kutzadika'a (Mono Paiute)
label: Culture
content: Pomo
label: Culture
content: Laguna Indians
label: Culture
content: Makah
label: Culture
content: White Mountain Apache
label: Culture
content: Seneca
label: Culture
content: Minneconjou Lakota (Minniconjou Sioux)
label: Culture
content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: Numakiki (Mandan)
label: Culture
content: Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
label: Culture
content: Minitari (Hidatsa)
label: Culture
content: Diné (Navajo)
label: Culture
content: Kiowa
label: Culture
content: Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Plateau
label: Culture
content: Niimíipuu (Nez Perce)
label: Culture
content: Cayuse
label: Culture
content: Acoma Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Payómkawichum (Luiseño)
label: Culture
content: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux)
label: Culture
content: Mohawk
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Native American Public Programs was founded in 1989 as a part of the Department of Education in the National Museum of Natural History. Under the directorship of Aleta Ringlero, its main activity was the arranging of demonstrations by Native American artists and craftsmen in the exhibition areas of the museum.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5,750 Prints (circa, silver gelatin (including contact prints))
label: Extent
content: 12 Color transparencies
label: Extent
content: 10 Color negatives
label: Extent
content: 3,500 Color slides (circa)
label: Extent
content: 67 Color prints
label: Extent
content: 4 Negatives (photographic) (acetate)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1989-1993
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Photographs and other material collected in the office files of Aleta Ringlero, Native American Public Programs director. Transferred to the National Anthropological Archives in 1991.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.91-26
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Color transparencies
label: Type
content: Color negatives
label: Type
content: Color slides
label: Type
content: Color prints
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: List of programming and artists available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs documenting Native American Public Programs events, including images of Native American artists and examples of their work during demonstrations and lectures at the National Museum of Natural History.  Photographs were mostly made by Smithsonian photographers, including Carl C. Hansen, Richard Strauss, Chip Clark, Laurie Minor-Penland, Eric Long, Alan Hart, Rick Vargas, Dane Penland, and Christina Taccone.  Included are a large number of photographs of Don Tenoso (Hunkpapa), an artist-in-residence at the National Museum of Natural History, and performances by James Luna (Luiseno/Digueno), Guillermo Gomez-Pena (Chicano), and Coco Fusco.  Crafts and arts depicted include beadwork, basket weaving, dollmaking, peyote fanmaking, weaving, hand games, quilting, clothing making, leatherwork, woodcarving, saddlemaking, sculpture, painting, story-telling, and performance art.  There are also images of Dolores Lewis Garcia and Emma Lewis Garcia (daughters of Acoma potter Lucy M. Lewis) and their pottery, Joallyn Archambault with artists, and the 1990 American Indian Theater Company reception.  

Other depicted artists include Maynard White Owl Lavadour (Cayuse/Nez Perce), Evangeline Talshaftewa (Hopi), Lisa Fritzler (Crow), Marian Hanssen, Vanessa Morgan (Kiowa/Pima), Marty Good Bear (Mandan/Hidatsa), Katie Henio and Sarah Adeky (Navajo), Geneva Lofton and Lee Dixon (Luiseno), Chris Devers (Luiseno), Mary Good Bear (Mandan), Robert and Alice Little Man (Kiowa), Lisa Watt (Seneca), Jay McGirt (Creek), Bill Crouse (Seneca), Kevin Johnny-John (Onondaga), Rose Anderson (Pomo), Francys Sherman and Margaret Hill (Mono), Thelene Albert and Annie Bourke (White Mountain Apache), Bob Tenequer (Laguna), Jimmy Abeyeta (Navajo), Lou Ann Reed (Acoma), Melissa Peterson (Makah), Jennifer and Kallie Keams Musial (Navajo), Joyce Growing Thunder-Fogarty and Juanita Fogarty (Assiniboine/Sioux), David Neel (Kwakiutal), Mervin Ringlero (Pima), Jhon Goes-In-Center (Oglala), D. Montour (Delaware/Mohawk), Rikki Francisco (Pima), Annie Antone (Papago), Angie Reano-Owen (Santo Domingo Pueblo), Carol Vigil (Jemez), Gregg Baurland (Miniconjou), Greg Colfax (Makah), Lydia Whirlwind-Soldier (Sicangu Dakota), Martin Red Bear (Oglala), Michael Rogers (Paiute), Alta Rogers (Yurok/Paiute), Dorothy Stanley (Miwok), Lisa Little Chief (Dakota), Tom Haukaas (Sicangu Dakota), Nora Navanjo-Morsie (Santa Clara Tewa), Seneca Women's Singing Society, Molly Blankenship and Martha Ross (Eastern Cherokee), Julia Parker (Miwok/Pomo), Candy and Claudia Cellicion (Zuni), Sally and Lorraine Black (Navajo), Carmen Quinto-Plunkett (Tlingit), Ina McNeil (Hunkpapa), and Ellen and Faye Quandelancy (Zuni), and Rikki Francisco (Pima).
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Audio of James Luna's lecture for the Native American Public Programs office held in National Anthropological Archives in MS 7514.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Dolls made by Don Tenoso for the Native American Public Programs office held in Department of Anthropology collections in accession 390905.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs of Tenoso held in the Smithsonian Institution Archives in SIA2009-2222 and 90-13726.