Jesse Walter Fewkes photograph collection relating to archaeological subjects
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 4321
name: label: Creator
content: Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930
label: Photographer
content: Beam, George L. (George Lytle), 1868-1935
label: Photographer
content: Gill, De Lancey, 1859-1940
label: Artist
content: Gill, Mary W.
label: Photographer
content: Higley, Elmer Ellsworth
label: Photographer
content: McKee, Thomas M., 1854-1939
label: Artist
content: Mullett, G. M.
label: Photographer
content: Poley, H. S. (Horace Swartley)
label: Photographer
content: Rowland, Wesley R.
label: Photographer
content: Wittick, Ben, 1845-1903
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Blackfoot
place: label: Place
content: Tennessee -- Antiquities
label: Place
content: Stikine River (B.C. and Alaska)
label: Place
content: South Carolina -- Antiquities
label: Place
content: New Mexico -- Antiquities
label: Place
content: Huasteca Region (Mexico)
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content: Maryland -- Antiquities
label: Place
content: Louisiana -- Antiquities
label: Place
content: Alabama -- Antiquities
label: Place
content: Arizona -- Antiquities
label: Place
content: Colorado -- Antiquities
label: Place
content: Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.)
label: Place
content: Florida -- Antiquities
label: Place
content: Mexico -- Antiquities
label: Place
content: Hovenweep National Monument (Utah and Colo.)
label: Place
content: Utah -- Antiquities
label: Place
content: Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)
label: Place
content: Navajo National Monument
label: Place
content: Casa Grande (Ariz.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Excavations (Archaeology)
label: Topic
content: Burial
creator: label: Creator
content: Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930
culture: label: Culture
content: Diné (Navajo)
label: Culture
content: A:shiwi (Zuni)
label: Culture
content: Hopi Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
label: Culture
content: Huastec
label: Culture
content: Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan)
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content: Jesse Walter Fewkes photograph collection relating to archaeological subjects
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850-1930) was a naturalist, anthropologist, and archeologist, and chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology from 1918 to his death in 1928. Fewkes received a Ph.D. in marine zoology from Harvard in 1877, and acted as curator of lower invertebrates at the Museum of Comparative Zoology until 1887. While on a collecting trip in the western United States, he developed an interest in the culture and history of the Pueblo Indians. In 1891, Fewkes became director of the Hemenway Southwestern Archeological Expedition and editor of the Journal of American Archeology and Ethnology, studying and recording Hopi ceremonials. In 1895, he embarked on various archeological explorations for the Bureau of American Ethnology, excavating ruins in the Southwest, the West Indies, and Florida. He was appointed chief of the Bureau in 1918, and played an important role in the creation of Hovenweep National Monument in Colorado and Wupatki National Monument in Arizona.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9 Prints (cromolithograph)
label: Extent
content: 40 Prints (circa, halftone)
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content: 77 Prints (circa, albumen)
label: Extent
content: 84 Drawings (visual works) (circa 84 drawings (some mechanically produced))
label: Extent
content: 1,655 Prints (circa, silver gelatin)
label: Extent
content: 71 Copy negatives
label: Extent
content: 43 Copy prints
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content: 363 Negatives (photographic) (circa, nitrate)
label: Extent
content: 7 Paintings (visual works)
label: Extent
content: 1 Print (cyanotype)
label: Extent
content: 1 Print (photogravure)
label: Extent
content: 1 Postcard (collotype)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1890-1928
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.4321
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Copy negatives
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
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content: Paintings (visual works)
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content: Postcards
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Digital surrogate for one drawing is available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Inventory available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs and drawings mostly relating to archeological subjects, collected and arranged by Jesse Walter Fewkes for his reference.  Subjects include burial mounds, excavations, drawn maps, as well as urns, implements, idols, pottery, and other artifacts found in excavations, and Hopi, Zuni, and Piegan ceremonies and dances.  Many of the photographs and drawings were probably made by Fewkes.  Publication information is noted on some.  The collection also includes newspaper clippings and correspondence.

Photographs were taken in Alabama, Arizona (including Casa Grande, Elden Pueblo, Navajo National Monument, and Wupatki National Monument), Colorado (including Mesa Verde and Montezuma Valley), Florida (including Weeden Island), Illinois (Cahokia Mound), Louisiana, Maryland, Mexico (including La Huasteca Region), Mississippi Valley, New Mexico (including Chaco Canyon, Hawikuh, and Mimbres Valley), South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah (including Hill Canyon, McElmo Canyon, and McLean Basin Ruins), Hovenweep National Monument, the West Indies (including Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, and Cuba), and West Virginia.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives also holds the Jesse Walter Fewkes Papers (MS 4408), his photographs of excavations in Mesa Verde (Photo Lot 30), his negatives (Photo Lot 86), and other manuscript collections by and related to Fewkes' ethnological research and archeology and his work with the Bureau of American Ethnology.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence from Fewkes held in the National Anthropological Archives in the George L. Beam papers (MS 4517), the Henry Bascom Collins, Jr. papers, the Anthropological Society of Washington records (MS 4821), the Herbert William Krieger papers, the J.C. Pilling papers, the Walter Hough Papers (in the records of the Department of Anthropology), and the records of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The anthropology collections of the National Museum of Natural History hold artifacts collected by Fewkes, including USNM ACC 048761 (relating to Casa Grande excavations) and USNM ACC 050765 (relating to Mesa Verde excavations).