Wes Taukchiray photograph collection of American Indians
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot R98-45, NAA Photo Lot 97-3, NAA Photo Lot 88-3, NAA Photo Lot 83-6, NAA Photo Lot 81-65, NAA Photo Lot 77-65
label: Reproduction Note
content: Most of the copy prints and negatives made by Smithsonian Institution, 1977, 1980, 1997, 1999.
name: label: Collector
content: Taukchiray, Wes
label: Collector
content: Red Thunder Cloud, 1919-1996
label: Author
content: Red Thunder Cloud, 1919-1996
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Croatan

Iroquois

Alibamu

Peedee
place: label: Place
content: New York (State)
label: Place
content: South Carolina
label: Place
content: Rhode Island
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated by Wes Taukchiray in 1977, 1980, 1982, 1988, 1996, and 1998.
creator: label: Collector
content: Taukchiray, Wes
culture: label: Culture
content: Montauk
label: Culture
content: Tunica
label: Culture
content: Narragansett
label: Culture
content: Catawba Indians
label: Culture
content: Alabama Indians
label: Culture
content: Tuscarora
label: Culture
content: Pee Dee Indians
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Subarctic
label: Culture
content: Lumbee
label: Culture
content: Shinnecock
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Wes Taukchiray, born Wes White in 1948, is an ethnohistorian and author of numerous publications about Indians of the American Southeast, particularly South Carolina. In 1969 he began trying to determine the origins of the Four Holes Indian Community and other American Indian groups in South Carolina; this work was continued in contract work in 1974 and 1975 for the Smithsonian Institution's Center for the Study of Man. From 1972-1982 he worked as a private researcher and genealogist based in the South Carolina Archives. He was employed by the Lumbee Regional Development Association (1976-77) before becoming the main researcher for the Indian Law Unit of the Lumbee River Legal Services (1982), where he cowrote the Lumbee tribe's petition for federal recognition. In 1988, he changed his name to Taukchiray, which means "white" in the Catawba language.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 180 Copy prints (circa)
label: Extent
content: 3 Color prints
label: Extent
content: 57 Copy negatives (circa)
label: Extent
content: 1 Print (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.R98-45
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Color prints
label: Type
content: Copy negatives
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals note
content: Originals probably in possession of Wes Taukchiray, South Carolina Historical Society, South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina, or Special Collections at University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs collected by Wes Taukchiray, probably during work with American Indian groups in the 1970s and 1980s.  The collection largely consists of images and narratives depicting Narragansett, Montauk, and Shinnecock Indians, most of which comes from "Rare Eastern Indian Photo Series" distributed by Red Thunder Cloud, a common correspondent of Taukchiray.  It also includes one image of a member of the Clark family near Summerville, South Carolina and one image of Tuscarora or Lumbee Indians Will and Roberta Bullard Locklear in their home in the Chavis Settlement in North Carolina, made by Mark Price of the Fayetteville [North Carolina] Times and collected while Taukchiray was living with them in the 1980s.  There are two photographs of Chief Hudson Crummie, possibly a Pee Dee Indian, during a visit by Taukchiray, as well as six photographs depicting Tunica Indians and artifacts and some images of Alabama and Catawba Indians.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photo Lot 97-3, Photo Lot 88-3, Photo Lot 83-6, Photo Lot 81-65, and Photo Lot 77-65 have been relocated and merged with Photo Lot R98-45. These photographs were also collected by Wes Taukchiray and form part of this collection.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds the Lumbee petition for federal acknowledgement 1987 (MS 7523).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Wes (White) Taukchiray's papers from his work for the Center for the Study of Man can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in the Records of the Center for the Study of Man.