Photographs of Ute Indians
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4251
label: Local Note
content: Filed: Original prints, Ute.
name: label: Photographer
content: Poley, H. S. (Horace Swartley)
label: Names
content: Charlie, Buckskin
label: Names
content: Charlie, Buckskin, Mrs.
label: Names
content: Robinson, John
label: Names
content: Snow, Luke
label: Names
content: Snow, Luke, Mrs.
topic: label: Topic
content: Photographs
label: Topic
content: Camps
label: Topic
content: Habitations and other structures -- tipi construction
creator: label: Photographer
content: Poley, H. S. (Horace Swartley)
culture: label: Culture
content: Ute
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Basin
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 29 Prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1912, 1913
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Gift of the photographer. Transmitted in letter of December 1, 1913, along with general description of method erection of tipi. Correspondence in Smithsonian Institution files.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4251
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Indians from the Reservation at Ignacio, Colorado, making camp in the Garden of ther Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado, to which place a group of about 70, under the leadership of Buckskin Charlie ("War Chief" of the Utes) had come by train to be the feature of the annual "Shan Kive" (good time) of the Pike's Peak region, summer, 1913. H. S. Poley, photographer. Numbers 4251: Numbers 1a-10a: Mrs Buckskin Charlie erecting her tipi. 1a "Buckskin Charlie's squaw preparing to erct her tipi." 46,786-C. 2a "Ready to raise the poles. She used 5 but Charlie's tent is very large." 46,786-D. 3a "Opening out the poles." 46,786-E. 4a "Raising the canvas." 46,786-F. 5a "Straightening the canvas." 46,786-G. 6a "Opening out the canvas over the poles." 46,786-H. 7a "Adjusting canvas at entrance." 46,786-J. 8a "Placing end of pole in socket of ventilating flap." 46,786-K. 9a "Stretching canvas and pegging down the edge of tipi." 46,786-L. 10a "Buckskin Charlie and squaw viewing the camp." Numbers 1b-12b. Erection of the tipi of John Robinson. 1b "Selecting site for tipi." 2b "Selecting first four poles to be tied together." 3b "Opening out the first four poles." 4b "Showing the two poles at entrance." 5b "Adjusting canvas and fastening it to pole." 6b "Canvas on pole in position. Placing the other poles." 7b "Completed tipi." 8b "Neighborly calls." 9b "Her home was ready in less than an hour." 10b "Ute camp--carrying water." 11b "John Robinson--Ute." 12b "Ute camp."

C-Series: Utes of same Band. Photos taken 1 year earlier (1912), in their camp in Monument Valley Park, Colorado Springs, Colorado. C-1 "Luke Snow (Police)." Two men standing, woman seated, outside tipi. C-2 Same. C-3 "Mrs Luke Snow." Woman with cradle on back. C-4 Same, with cradle; another woman with small girl. C-5 Same. C-6 Man, two women, outside tipi. C-7 Woman at tipi entrance. Not clear.