James A. Clifton photographs of Potawatomi people and material culture
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 78-46
label: Reproduction Note
content: Copy prints probably made by Regents Press of Kansas.
name: label: Creator
content: Clifton, James A. (photographer and collector)
label: Names
content: Topeka Capital-Journal
label: Photographer
content: Bee, Robert L.
label: Photographer
content: Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957
label: Photographer
content: Field, H.B.
label: Photographer
content: Gill, De Lancey, 1859-1940
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Chippewa
topic: label: Topic
content: Powwows
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Creator
content: Clifton, James A. (photographer and collector)
culture: label: Culture
content: Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)
label: Culture
content: Potawatomi
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: James A. Clifton is a psychological anthropologist and ethnohistorian.  He graduated with a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Oregon in 1960 and was the Emeritus Frankenthal Professor of Anthropology and History at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 20 Gelatin silver prints (mounted)
label: Extent
content: 7 Copy prints (mounted)
unitdate: label: Date
content: bulk 1963-1964
label: Date
content: circa 1850-1965
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by James A. Clifton, 1978.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.78-46
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Gelatin silver prints
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photographs published in The Prairie People: Continuity and Change in Potawatomi Indian Culture, 1665-1965, Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1977.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals note
content: Originals for some images in Chicago Historical Society and British Museum (which received photographs from Blackmore Museum).
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs depicting Potawatomi people, including copy prints of 19th century portraits as well as photographs by James A. Clifton and Dr. Robert L. Bee of Potawatomi interviewees and a Potawatomi pow wow.  The collection also includes images of Potawatomi material culture, including heirloom pipes, a grave house, dice counters, a drum and Ojibwa participants in a drum presentation ceremony.  Photographs are mounted for publication and have captions.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Originals for Bureau of American Ethnology copy prints can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in the Reference Prints File and the BAE Historical Negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives also holds$dJames A. Clifton's Research Files on the Kansas Potawatomi, his Report on a Survey of Potawatomi Indian Groups in Canada (MS 7198), and his revised draft of "Escape, Evasion, and Eviction: Adaptive Responses of the Indians of the Old Northwest to the Jacksonian Removal Policy in the 1830s" (MS 7395).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: James Clifton photographs of Ruth Landes, a Potawatomi woman, can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Ruth Landes's papers.