Laurence R. Blair and Mary Ellen Blair photographs relating to Nampeyo and Thomas V. Keam
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 87-35
name: label: Creator
content: Blair, Laurence R. (collector and photographer)
label: Photographer
content: Hood Museum of Art
label: Collector
content: Blair, Mary Ellen
label: Names
content: Keam, Thomas V.
label: Names
content: Nampeyo, ca. 1856-1942
label: Names
content: Stephen, Alexander MacGregor, d. 1894
place: label: Place
content: England
label: Place
content: Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.)
label: Place
content: Arizona
creator: label: Creator
content: Blair, Laurence R. (collector and photographer)
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
label: Culture
content: Hopi Pueblo
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Laurence and Mary Ellen Blair were historical researchers and authors. In 1999, they published a book on Nampeyo, entitled The Legacy of a Master Potter: Nampeyo and Her Descendants. The book detailed the life and work of Iris Nampeyo (ca. 1860-1942), a potter who lived at Hopi  in Arizona. During the 1870s and 1880s, she sold her work at a local trading post operated by Thomas Keam, an English-born trader who worked with both Hopi and Navajo craftspeople.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Copy prints
label: Extent
content: 5 Color prints
label: Extent
content: 4 Color slides
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1915, 1984-1986
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Laurence and Mary Ellen Blair, 1987.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.87-35
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Color prints
label: Type
content: Color slides
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs relating to Nampeyo and her pottery, and Thomas V. Keam's life. Includes photographs made by Laurence Blair in the church graveyard at Truro, England, where Keam was buried; the house in Truro where he died; and a copy of a portrait, possibly the last made of Keam. The collection also includes images of the birthplace of A. M. Stephen in Edinburgh and his grave in Keams Canyon, Arizona. Two photographs show pottery made by Nampeyo, which is now in the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, and an additional photograph depicts Nampeyo with members of the Polacca family at the Tom Polacca Memorial at Hopi Pueblo. There is also an image of Nampeyo's eldest daughter Annie Lesou Healing with three other women (Rachel Healing Namingha, Priscilla Namingha Shamie, and Lydia Healing).
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photographs of Nampeyo can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 59, and the BAE historical negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Museum of the American Indian, and Department of Anthropology hold examples of Nampeyo pottery.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Smithsonian Institution Archives holds correspondence from Thomas Keam regarding his pottery collection (SIA RU000189).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Peabody Museum at Harvard University and the Cline Library at Northern Arizona University hold photographs and artifacts donated by Keam.