Copy photograph of Zane Grey and Nasja Begay
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot R84-18
label: Reproduction Note
content: Copy print made by Smithsonian Institution, 1984.
name: label: Names
content: Begay
label: Names
content: Grey, Zane, 1872-1939
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Basin
label: Culture
content: Paiute
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Nasja Begay was a Paiute guide for multiple expeditions to the Rainbow Bridge in Utah. He assisted the 1909 Rainbow Bridge Expedition, which included Byron Cummings of the University of Utah, Government Land Office surveyor William Douglass, and pioneer archeologist and trader John Weatherill. In 1913, Zane Grey employed John Wetherill and Nasja Begay to guide him on the first of several trips to the bridge.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Copy print
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1913
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: The original photograph was found by Stan Jones, an amateur explorer of the Lake Powell region, in Zane Grey's files at the home of Grey's son. Jones loaned the original for copying in 1984.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.R84-18
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals note
content: Original retained by Stan Jones.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Collection consists of a copy print depicting Zane Grey and Nasja Begay seated on a rock. The photograph was likely made in May 1913, on the trail to Rainbow Bridge.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs of Zane Grey can be found in the National Museum of American History Archives Center in NMAH Acc. 1991.3051.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photographs of Nasja Begay can be found in the Henry E. Huntington Library in the Otis Marston Colorado River Collection.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Zane Grey's papers can be found in the Library of Congress, University of Oregon Libraries, Beinecke Library at Yale University, and Ohio Historical Society.