Photographs of We'wha demonstrating Zuni textile making
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 2004-03
name: label: Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
label: Names
content: Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915
label: Names
content: We'wha, 1849-1896
topic: label: Topic
content: Spinning
label: Topic
content: Weaving
creator: label: Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
label: Culture
content: A:shiwi (Zuni)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: We'wha (d. 1896) was a Zuni berdache and one of Matilda Coxe Stevenson's main informants in her research.  In 1886, We'wha spent six months in Washington, D.C., living with Stevenson and her husband and helping the Bureau of American Ethnology to record Zuni knowledge.  As part of this documentation, the Bureau also photographed We'wha demonstrating Zuni weaving techniques.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Albumen prints (mounted)
label: Extent
content: 7 Cyanotypes (photographic prints)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1886
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Photographs removed from the National Anthropological Archives File Prints by Kathleen Baxter in 1985 were not formally accessioned until November 2004.  One photograph, relocated from MS 4624 (now Photo Lot 23) in September 2013, may have been collected by Matilda Coxe Stevenson for her manuscipt "Dress and adornment of the Pueblo Indians."  The other photographs may have originally been collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.2004-03
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
label: Type
content: Cyanotypes (photographic prints)
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Cyanotypes
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Cyanotypes
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Includes images of We'wha (Zuni) spinning wool, setting up a loom, and weaving a blanket at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.  The photographs were probably made as part of a demonstration commissioned by Matilda Coxe Stevenson or the Bureau of American Ethnology.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: One albumen print mounted on boudoir card, previously held in MS 4624 (now in Photo Lot 23) has been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 2004-03.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Original glass negatives for most of these images are held in the National Anthropological Archives in the BAE historical negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs of We'wha are in the National Anthropological Archives in the Matilda Coxe Stevenson photographs (Photo Lot 23).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives also holds the Matilda Coxe Stevenson papers (MS 4689).
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content: Photographs of We'wha demonstrating Zuni textile making, circa 1886