Charles Kroehle and George Huebner photographs of Indigenous peoples of Peru
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 129
name: label: Photographer
content: Kroehle, J. Charles, 1876-1902
label: Photographer
content: Huebner, George, 1862-1935
label: Names
content: Safford, William Edwin, 1859-1926
topic: label: Topic
content: Dwellings
label: Topic
content: Weapons
creator: label: Photographer
content: Kroehle, J. Charles, 1876-1902
culture: label: Culture
content: Piro
label: Culture
content: Shipibo
label: Culture
content: Indians of South America -- Peru
label: Culture
content: Asháninka (Campa/Chuncha)
label: Culture
content: Cashibo
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: J. Charles Kroehle (1876-1902) and George Huebner were both German photographers who documented the Amazon region and its people in the late 19th century. Kroehle was primarily an expeditionary photographer and his photographs were published in books on the region, including El Peru Ilustrado (1892). George Huebner arrived in Brazil about 1885 and made pictures in Peru in Iquitos and on the Ucyali river (circa 1888). Huebner opened a studio in Manaus, Brazil in 1898 and in Belem in 1906.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 21 Albumen prints (mounted)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1880s
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Photographs donated to the Bureau of American Ethnology, possibly by William Edwin Safford.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.129
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs documenting Indigenous Peruvians, including Campa, Cashivo, Cunivo, and Piro communities; some images depict dwellings and weaponry. All or most of the photographs were made by Charles Kroehle and partner George Huebner, and probably collected by William E. Safford during his 1891-1892 expedition to Peru and Bolivia in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition.  The photographs are mounted on disbound pages from an album.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional Kroehle and Huebner photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 97, Photo Lot 78, and Photo Lot 24.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs collected by Safford can be found in National Anthropological Archives in MS 3366, Photo Lot 97, and Photo Lot 76-26.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Smithsonian Institution Archives holds the William Edwin Safford Papers, 1894-1925 (SIA RU007275) and records relating to Safford's collecting expedition in South America (in SIA RU000189).