Ales Hrdlicka collection of photographs of Native Americans for the Panama-California Exposition
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 9, USNM ACC 61302
name: label: Collector
content: Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943
label: Photographer
content: Fiske, Frank Bennett, 1883-1952
label: Photographer
content: Gill, De Lancey, 1859-1940
label: Photographer
content: Micka, Frank
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Apache

Sioux

Standing Rock Reservation
creator: label: Collector
content: Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux)
label: Culture
content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
label: Culture
content: Jicarilla Apache
label: Culture
content: Kiowa
label: Culture
content: Osage
label: Culture
content: Omaha
label: Culture
content: Yanktonnai Nakota
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Ales Hrdlicka (1869-1943) was born in Czechoslovakia and came to the United States at the age of thirteen. Originally trained in medicine, he developed an interest in physical anthropology while working with the New York State hospitals and researching with the Department of Anthropology in the Pathological Institute of the New York State Hospitals. Hrdlicka joined the Hyde Expeditions to the American Southwest and made his own expeditions to study physical characteristics of Southwest tribes. In 1903, he was appointed head of the United States National Museum's newly-formed Division of Physical Anthropology.

In 1912, Hrdlicka planned and directed seven expeditions, gathering information that helped him prepare physical anthropology exhibits for the Panama-California Exposition at San Diego, California (1915). During this process, he hired sculptor Frank Micka to make busts of people from around the world.  While in the field making casts, Micka also took front and profile photographs of subjects.  Hrdlicka made his own trip to photograph the people in Urga, Mongolia, making 360 images of Mongolians and some Tibetans for use in the exposition.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Copy negative
label: Extent
content: 135 Prints (circa, silver gelatin and albumen)
label: Extent
content: 2 Copy prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1912
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Images collected for the United States National Museum by Ales Hrdlicka as part of accession 61302.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.9
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Copy negatives
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Copy prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Front and profile images of Apache, Kiowa, Omaha, Osage, Teton, and Yankton people made for Ales Hrdlicka's use in preparing busts and physical anthropological exhibits for the Panama-California Exposition in 1915.  Accompanying the photographs are notes produced under the supervision of Lucile Eleanor St. Hoyme; these include the tribe, age, sex, name(s), photographer, and number of corresponding bust.  Photographers represented in the collection are Frank Micka, a sculptor hired by the exposition to make busts, as well as photographers Frank Bennett Fiske, De Lancey W. Gill, and others.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds original negatives for many of these photographs (Photo Lot 73-26B) and images of resulting busts (Photo Lot 88-25).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives also holds the Ales Hrdlicka Papers ca. 1887-1943.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Material from Hrdlicka, mostly correspondence, is held in the National Anthropological Archives in the papers and records of William Louis Abbott, Henry Bascom Collins, Herbert William Krieger, Frank Spencer, the American Anthropological Association, Bureau of American Ethnology, Department of Anthropology of the United States National Museum (National Museum of Natural History), Science Service, Anthropological Society of Washington, and the United States Army Medical Museum (anatomical section, records relating to specimens transferred to the Smithsonian Institution).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Hrdlicka photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 8, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 70, Photo Lot 78, Photo Lot 97, Photo Lot 73-26B, Photo Lot 73-26G, Photo Lot 83-41, and Photo Lot 92-46.