Melissa Jones photographs of Yavapai people on Fort McDowell Reservation
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 76-126, NAA Photo Lot 79-9
name: label: Creator
content: Jones, Melissa
place: label: Place
content: Fort McDowell Indian Reservation (Ariz.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Basket making
creator: label: Creator
content: Jones, Melissa
culture: label: Culture
content: Yavapai
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Melissa Jones photographed the Yavapai community as part of a project to prevent the building of the Orme dam, which threatened the Yavapais on Fort McDowell Reservation.  The project, led by Arizona State University anthropologist Sigrid Khera and Orme Dam activist Carolina Butler, produced photographs as well as an oral history with two Yavapai elders.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 8 Prints (silver gelatin)
label: Extent
content: 2 Color prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1975-1976
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Six prints (relocated from Photo Lot 76-126) donated by Carolina Butler, 1976. Four prints donated by Dixie Davis, 1978.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.76-126
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Color prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs depicting Yavapai people, including two basket makers. The collection also includes images of a woman at a grave in Fort McDowell cemetery, and an image of Dixie Davis, Yavapai activist and member of the National Congress of American Indians.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photo Lot 76-126 has been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 79-9. These photographs were also made by Melissa Jones on Fort McDowell Indian Reservation and form part of this collection.