Collection of photographs relating to the Northwest Coast and Native Americans
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 82, NAA Photo Lot 83
name: label: Names
content: Albatross Expedition
label: Names
content: United States Fish Commission
label: Names
content: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
label: Photographer
content: Hitchcock, Romyn, 1851-1923
label: Photographer
content: Mills, N. B.
label: Names
content: Niblack, Albert P. (Albert Parker), 1859-1929
label: Photographer
content: Stieffel, H.
label: Photographer
content: Townsend, Charles Haskins, 1859-1944
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
place: label: Place
content: Montana
label: Place
content: Peru
label: Place
content: Puerto Rico
label: Place
content: Galapagos Islands
label: Place
content: Bonin Islands
label: Place
content: Philippines
label: Place
content: Aleutian Islands (Alaska)
label: Place
content: Alaska
label: Place
content: Mexico
label: Place
content: Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula)
label: Place
content: Fort Keogh (Mont.)
culture: label: Culture
content: Arctic peoples
label: Culture
content: Eskimos -- depicted
label: Culture
content: Polynesian
label: Culture
content: Ainu
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America -- depicted
label: Culture
content: Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 275 Items (circa 275 engravings and drawings for engravings)
label: Extent
content: 200 Copy prints (circa)
label: Extent
content: 1 Print (silver gelatin)
label: Extent
content: 1 Copy negative
label: Extent
content: 380 Cyanotypes (photographic prints) (circa)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1885-1900
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.82
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Copy negatives
label: Type
content: Cyanotypes (photographic prints)
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Engravings published in Franz Boas, "The Social Organization and Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians," USNM Annual Report, 1895; and Albert Parker Niblack, "The Coast Indians of Southern Alaska and Northern British Columbia," USNM Annual Report, 1888. Also, photographs published in Romyn Hitchcock, "Ainos of Yezo," USNM Annual report, 1890.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Folder lists are available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The majority of the collection documents Northwest Coast scenery, people, and settlements; these include photographs made by Franz Boas during US Fish Commission expeditions on the USS Albatross, as well as engravings made for publications on Northwest Coast Natives by Franz Boas and Albert Parker Niblack.  Another large portion of the collection consists of reference prints relating to Native Americans, Ainu people and Japan, Polynesia, the Philippines, Bonin Islands, and Peru. Many of these were copied from the central negative file of the National Museum of Natural History as well as other museums.  There are also photographs, many by C. H. Townsend, made during the Fish Commission expeditions to Puerto Rico on the USS Fish Hawk and  some taken by N. B. Mills during an expedition that traveled on the USS Albatross to Baja California and the Galapagos Islands.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives also holds Niblack's notes concerning Northwest Coast Indians, circa 1885-1889 (MS 4513), additional photographs by Romyn Hitchcock of Ainu (Photo Lot 77-38), additional C. H. Townsend photographs (in Photo Lot 24), original Matilda Coxe Stevenson photographs (Photo Lot 23), and original negatives made by Niblack (in BAE historical negatives).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The United States Fish Commission Records are held by the Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The American Philosophical Society holds the Franz Boas papers.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Albert Parker Niblack's papers are held by J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, and William Henry Smith Memorial Library, Indiana Historical Society.