Carlos Montezuma lantern slide collection relating to Native Americans
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 73
label: Varying Form of Title
content: Carlos Montezuma-Doris Collester Collection of Lantern Slides
label: General note
content: The handwriting on the slides has been identified as that of Dr. Carlos Montezuma by John Larner, the editor of Montezumaʹs papers. Information in this catalog record has been taken from Cesare Marino, Solving the Mystery: The Carlos Montezuma-Doris Collester Collection of Lantern Slides in the NAA : Report of Background Research and Interview with Mrs. Doris Collester, Donor of the Carlos Montezuma Collection of Hand-tinted Lantern Slides to the Smithsonian Institution, conducted in Williamstown, West Virginia, August 2013.
name: label: Creator
content: Montezuma, Carlos, 1866-1923
label: Names
content: Phoenix Indian School
label: Names
content: United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)
label: Photographer
content: Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896
label: Photographer
content: Choate, J. N. (John N.), 1848-1902
label: Photographer
content: Gentile, Carlo, 1835-1893
label: Photographer
content: Prando, Peter Paul Father
label: Photographer
content: Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Navaho

Shoshone

Sioux

Papago (Tohono O'odham)
place: label: Place
content: Montezuma Castle National Monument (Ariz.)
label: Place
content: Casa Grande (Ariz.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Dwellings
creator: label: Creator
content: Montezuma, Carlos, 1866-1923
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Basin
label: Culture
content: Apache
label: Culture
content: Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
label: Culture
content: Piipaash (Maricopa)
label: Culture
content: Paiute
label: Culture
content: Shoshone
label: Culture
content: Ute
label: Culture
content: Yavapai
label: Culture
content: Tohono O'odham (Papago)
label: Culture
content: Mojave (Mohave)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Diné (Navajo)
label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
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content: Carlos Montezuma lantern slide collection relating to Native Americans
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Carlos Montezuma (1866-1923, also called Wassaja) was an Native American activist and physician.  He was Yavapai, though he often identified himself as Apache.  He was captured by Pima Indians at a young age and sold in 1871 to Italian-immigrant and pioneer photographer Carlo (or Charles) Gentile, who adopted the child and took him to New York.  Montezuma graduated from the University of Illinois (1884) and received his MD from the Chicago Medical College (1889).  He developed a friendship with Richard Henry Pratt, head of the Carlisle Indian School, and took a post as reservation physician for the Bureau of Indian Services.  During this time he developed an opposition to BIA policies and became an Native American advocate, speaking out against reservations.  He gave numerous lectures on Native Americans at institutions around the United States, helped organize the Society of American Indians, and published a personal newsletter entitled Wassaja (1916-1922).  In 1896, Montezuma established a medical practice in Chicago.  He died in Arizona in 1923.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 171 Lantern slides
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1871-1913
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: The lantern slides were given by Montezuma's widow, Marie Keller Montezuma (later Moore) and her second husband, Bill Moore to Robert Collester, circa 1940s. They were donated to the Smithsonian by Doris Collester, circa 1961.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.73
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Lantern slides
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Copy negatives and copy prints for some images, made by the Smithsonian, are available with the collection.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Inventory and part of Cesare Marino's report on the collection are available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The collection includes hand-colored glass lantern slides collected by Dr. Carlos Montezuma and used for his lectures on Native American rights. Many of the photographs are portraits, some made at Ft. McDowell and Fort Apache. Other images show schools, reservations, dwellings, Charles Dickens (a Yavapai store owner), Montezuma's Castle, Casa Grande, and scenic views. A special series includes photographs made during a 1913 hunting and sightseeing trip that he organized, probably including photographs made by Montezuma's guests, John T. McCutcheon and Charles B. Gibson.

Some of the images were made by Charles (Carlos) Gentile, the photographer and benefactor of Montezuma in his early years. There are also several by Father Peter Paulus Prando and John N. Choate, and one portrait each by Napoleon Sarony and Matthew Brady. Otherwise, the photographers are unidentified.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence from Montezuma is held in the National Anthropological Archives in the records of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Carlos Montezuma's papers are held in the Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections; Arizona State University Libraries, Charles Trumbull Hayden Library; and University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections.