Photographs of Isleta paintings and letter by Joe B. Lente
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 12A
label: Reproduction Note
content: Copy negatives made from material in an exhibit of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit Service, 1957.
name: label: Creator
content: Lente, Joe B. (Joe Bartolo)
label: Collector
content: Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941
topic: label: Topic
content: Rites and ceremonies
creator: label: Creator
content: Lente, Joe B. (Joe Bartolo)
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
label: Culture
content: Isleta Pueblo
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Joe Bartolo Lente was a member of the Isleta Pueblo of New Mexico.  He corresponded with anthropologist Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons and sold her over 140 paintings of Isleta social life and ceremonies.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Copy negatives
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1938-1939
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.12A
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Copy negatives
label: Type
content: Letters
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photographs published in Elsie Clews Parsons, "Isleta Paintings," BAE Bulletin 181 (paintings 8, 42, 68, 78).
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Letters
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals note
content: Originals in the American Philosophical Society.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The collection consists of photographs of Joe B. Lente's ink and watercolor paintings of Isleta Pueblo ceremonies and a small sketch of the artist on Lente's letter to Elsie Clews Parsons from September 16, 1938.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Facsimiles of Joe B. Lente letters are in the National Anthropological Archives in the papers of Esther S. Goldfrank.