Photographs of Native Americans and Other Subjects
name: label: Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
label: Creator
content: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology
creator: label: Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
label: Creator
content: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology
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content: Photographs of Native Americans and Other Subjects
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 18,000 Items (ca. 18,000 items)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1840s-1960s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.24
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Negatives
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Printed material
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The arrangement is complicated: (1) America north of Mexico, divided by geographic region and tribe based on George P. Murdock and Timothy J. O'Leary's scheme in Ethnographic Bilbiography of North America, 1975. The material is further subdivided by the organization that acted in the past as repository (Bureau of American Ethnology, United States National Museum [Department of Anthropology], National Museum of Natural History [Department of Anthropology], Smithsonian Office of Anthropology, and National Anthropological Archives). Thereunder it is divided into catalog unit or comparable categories generally based on provenance; (2) miscellany, historical and unidentified; (3) archaeology, arranged by geographic area; (4) Latin America; (5) material which did not lend itself to classification in categories given above and is identified by National Anthropological Archives catalog numbers.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Negatives
label: Genre/Form
content: Prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed material
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collections consists mostly of original and copy prints. There are also some negatives, artwork, photographs of artwork, and printed materials. Included is a large miscellany of ethnological, historical, and some archaeological subjects collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology from a wide variety of sources. To these have been added some photographs and other illustrative material acquired and sometimes accessioned by the Department of Anthropology of the United States National Museum/National Museum of Natural History. There are also prints of photographs from the archives' collection of glass negatives of Indians and the subject and geographic file. Although most of the material relates to North America, some images relating to historical events and to areas outside North America are included.
label: Scope and Contents
content: The relationship beween this collection and the National Anthropological Archives series of numbered manuscripts is close, for many of the accessions to the photographic collection were originally described in the catalog to the numbered manuscripts and are, hence, identified by a manuscript number. Today, the archives treat the two collections as separate entities, however, because there has been so much interfiling of uncatalog images among those with the manuscript numbers.