Willis G. Tilton collection of photographs of Native Americans
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 89-8, NAA Photo Lot 135
name: label: Collector
content: Tilton, Willis G.
label: Names
content: Field Museum of Natural History
label: Names
content: Big Foot, -1890
label: Photographer
content: Dorsey, George A. (George Amos), 1868-1931
label: Names
content: Geronimo, 1829-1909
label: Photographer
content: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917
label: Photographer
content: Hall, E. E.
label: Photographer
content: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
label: Photographer
content: Maude, F. H. (Frederic Hamer)
label: Photographer
content: Nelson, Edward William, 1855-1934
label: Photographer
content: Thompson, J. Eric S. (John Eric Sidney), 1898-1975
label: Photographer
content: Voth, H. R. (Henry R.), 1855-1931
label: Photographer
content: Winternitz, Ludwig (Louis)
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Alaskan Eskimo

Assiniboin; Assiniboine

Blackfoot

Flathead

Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)

Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox

Mishongnavi

Oraibi

Sauk & Fox

Shoshone

Sioux
place: label: Place
content: Belize
label: Place
content: Fort Belknap Indian Reservation (Mont.)
label: Place
content: Oraibi (Ariz.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
label: Topic
content: Rites and ceremonies
label: Topic
content: Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890
label: Topic
content: Sun Dance
creator: label: Collector
content: Tilton, Willis G.
culture: label: Culture
content: Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: Inunaina (Arapaho)
label: Culture
content: Apache
label: Culture
content: Sicangu Lakota (Brulé Sioux)
label: Culture
content: Assiniboine (Stoney)
label: Culture
content: Jicarilla Apache
label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
label: Culture
content: Kootenai (Kutenai)
label: Culture
content: Kickapoo
label: Culture
content: Diné (Navajo)
label: Culture
content: Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
label: Culture
content: Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)
label: Culture
content: Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux)
label: Culture
content: Ponca
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan)
label: Culture
content: Potawatomi
label: Culture
content: Northwest Coast
label: Culture
content: Sauk
label: Culture
content: Seminole
label: Culture
content: Shoshone
label: Culture
content: Taos Indians
label: Culture
content: Iroquois
label: Culture
content: Umatilla
label: Culture
content: White Mountain Apache
label: Culture
content: Wichita
label: Culture
content: Arctic peoples
label: Culture
content: Hopi Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Basin
label: Culture
content: Mayas
label: Culture
content: Patagonia
label: Culture
content: Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
label: Culture
content: Fox
label: Culture
content: Eskimos
label: Culture
content: Haida
label: Culture
content: A'aninin (Gros Ventre)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
label: Culture
content: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux)
label: Culture
content: Chiricahua Apache
label: Culture
content: Niuam (Comanche)
label: Culture
content: Coast Salish
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Subarctic
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Plateau
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content: Willis G. Tilton collection of photographs of Native Americans
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Willis G. Tilton was a dealer and owner of the store, Tilton Indian Relics, in Topeka, Kansas.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 685 Negatives (photographic) (circa, glass and nitrate)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1880-1930
label: Date
content: bulk 1899-1904
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: The Bureau of American Ethnology purchased these photographs from dealer Willis G. Tilton in 1962.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.89-8
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Most of the photographs have been digitized and digital surrogates are available online. Copy prints are available with the collection.
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photographs published in George A. Dorsey, "The Arapaho Sun Dance: the Ceremony of the Offerings Lodge," Field Columbian Museum Publication 75, Anthropological Series, vol. 4, 1903; Dorsey, "The Cheyenne: the Sun Dance," Field Columbian Museum Publication 103, Anthropological Series, vol. 4, no. 2, 1905; Dorsey and H. R. Voth, "The Oraibi Soyal Ceremony," Field Columbian Museum Publication 55, Anthropological Series, vol. 3, no. 1, 1901; Dorsey and Voth, "The Mishongnovi Ceremonies of the Snake and Antelope Fraternities, Field Columbian Museum Publication 66, Anthropological Series, vol. 3, no. 3, 1902; Voth, "The Oraibi Summer Snake Ceremony," Field Columbian Museum Publication 83, Anthropological Series, vol. 3, no. 4, 1903; Voth, "The Oraibi Oaqol Ceremony," Field Columbian Museum Publication 84, Anthropological Series, vol. 6, no. 1, 1903; Dorsey, "The Ponca Sun Dance," Field Columbian Museum Publication 102, Anthropological Series, vol. 7, no. 2, 1905; Voth, "The Oraibi Marau Ceremony," Field Columbian Museum Publication 156, Anthropological Series, vol. 11, no. 1, 1912; J. Eric Thompson, "Ethnology of the Mayas of Southern and Central British Honduras," Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago) Publication 274, Anthropological Series, vol. 17, no. 2, 1930; Thompson, "Archeological Investigations of the SOuthern Cayo District, British Honduras," Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago) Publication 301, Anthropological Series, vol. 17, no. 3, 1931; Thompson, "The Civilization of the Mayas," Chicago Field Museum, Anthropological Leaflet, no. 25, 1927; Edward William Nelson, "The Eskimo about Bering Strait," 18th BAE Annual Report, 1900; John Murdoch, "Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition," 9th BAE Annual Report, 1892.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Inventory available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs collected by Willis G. Tilton, a dealer in artifacts and photographs relating to Native Americans.  Many of the photographs were made by Field Columbian Museum photographer Charles Carpenter at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904; many others were created by various photographers for Field Museum publications.  Notable subjects include Big Foot, dead in the snow at the Wounded Knee battlefield; Arapaho and Cheyenne social dances; Hopi ceremonies; a reenactment of the shooting of Sitting Bull; Sun Dances (Arapaho, Assiniboin, Gros Ventre, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Ponca); and views of the United States Indian School Building and Pawnee people at the the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri. Other photographs include portraits and images of artifacts, basket weaving, cradles, dress, dwelling, tipis and other dwellings, and tree burials.  There are also some photographs of Henry Field's expedition to Iraq in 1934 (Field museum anthropological expedition to the Near East), work elephants in Burma, Pipestone Quarry in Minnesota, a church in the Yucatan, and a rickshaw and cart in Ceylon.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photographs in the Tilton Collection, previously filed in Photo Lot 135, have been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 89-8. These photographs were also purchased by the Bureau of American Ethnology from Willis G. Tilton and form part of this collection.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Associated photographs still held in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Most photographs included in the card catalog of copy negatives and in the reference file prints by tribe.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs by Dorsey held in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4721 and Photo Lot 24.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence from Dorsey held in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4821, records of the Bureau of American Ethnology, the J.C. Pilling Papers, and the Ales Hrdlicka Papers.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs by Nelson held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 171, Photo Lot 133, Photo Lot 24, and the BAE historical negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional Maude photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 90-1 and Photo Lot 24.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional E. E. Hall photographs held in National Anthropological Archives MS 4978 and Photo Lot 24.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Smithsonian Institution Archives holds Nelson's field reports (SIA Acc. 97-123) and the Edward William Nelson and Edward Alphonso Goldman Collection (SIA RU007364).
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content: Willis G. Tilton photograph collection of American Indians, circa 1880-1930 (bulk 1899-1904)