MS 4950 Mary Wright Gill painting of a Hopi altar
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4950

INV 11018100
label: Publication Note
content: Reproduced in J. Walter Fewkes, "The Owakülti Altar at Sichomovi Pueblo," American Anthropologist, 3:2, 1901. Plate IV with the caption "Owakülti Altar at Sichomovi."
name: label: Creator
content: Gill, Mary W.
place: label: Place
content: North America
creator: label: Creator
content: Gill, Mary W.
culture: label: Culture
content: Hopi [Sichomovi]
label: Culture
content: Hopi Pueblo
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Mary Wright Gill (1867-1929) was a scientific illustrator who worked as a contract artist for the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) and other government agencies. She worked primarily in pen and ink, graphite, and watercolor. Her illustrations were sometimes composites based on series of photographs. She also used the names Mary Irwin Wright and Mary Irwin Gill, and was briefly married to BAE illustrator and photographer De Lancey Walker Gill.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Paintings (visual works) (watercolor, 8.25 x 10.5 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1901
container: label: Container
content: Box 4946/4948/4949/4950, Folder 7
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4950
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Paintings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Paintings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Paintings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection is comprised of one (1) watercolor drawing by Mary Wright Gill depicting a Hopi altar. A caption reading "Owakülti Sitchomovi" has been added to the drawing in J. Walter Fewkes' handwriting. The drawing was done from a Bureau of American Ethnology photograph.

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relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds the photograph from which this drawing was made. Please see negative # 1820-b from the Bureau of American Ethnology negative collection (Photo Lot 176).

The National Anthropological Archives holds additional drawings and illustrations by Mary Wright Gill in MS 4108, MS 4949, MS 7531 and Photo Lot 133.