Richard Hill Photographs of Native Americans
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 83-35
name: label: Creator
content: Hill, Richard W., Sr.
topic: label: Topic
content: Cooking
label: Topic
content: Artisans
label: Topic
content: Dolls
label: Topic
content: Lacrosse
label: Topic
content: Weddings
label: Topic
content: Dance
label: Topic
content: Flute makers
label: Topic
content: Wood-carving
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Creator
content: Hill, Richard W., Sr.
culture: label: Culture
content: Iroquois
label: Culture
content: Tuscarora
label: Culture
content: Seminole
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Richard W. Hill, Sr. is a Tuscarora artist, writer, educator, curator, and museum consultant. He studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and earned a masters degree from the State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo. He taught at McMaster University, Mohawk College, Six Nations Polytechnic and SUNY Buffalo, and he served as director of the American Indian Art Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was also Assistant Director for Public Programs and an exhibition catalog writer for the National Museum of the American Indian. Hill's artwork includes photography, painting, carving, beading, and basketweaving.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 25 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1972-1978
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Richard Hill, 1983.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.83-35
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Informal photographic portraits depicting Iroquois, Seminole, and other Native American people. Images document the preparation of fry bread, a lacrosse player, a corn-husk doll maker, an Iroquois dancer, a longhouse wedding party, a Seneca wood carver making a water drum, a Seneca basketmaker, and a Seneca flute maker.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Canadian Museum of Civilizations in Quebec, the Woodland Indian Cultural Center in Brantford, Ontario, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the Indian Arts and Crafts Board in Washington, DC, and the Seneca Iroquois National Museum in Salamanca, New York, hold artwork by Hill.