Photographs of the Hopi pueblo Oraibi, interiors of Hopi homes, ceremonial dances, and portraits of Hopi and possibly Navajo Indians at Oraibi.
Description:
Contemporary coarse woven cloth photo album., Identification of photographer based on postcard image on first page with printed attribution on verso: Made by Simeon Schwemberger, St. Michael's Arizona, and by the fact that the style is similar to photographs identified as Schwemberger's., Individual photographs are 9 x 14 cm. and smaller., Purchased from the William Reese Company on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 1996., and Simeon Schwemberger, 1867-1931, joined the Franciscan order as a lay brother, moving to the mission at St. Michael's, Arizona in 1901. At the mission he began photographing Navajo Indians. After leaving St. Michael's in late 1907 to open a photo gallery in Gallup, New Mexico, he began photographing other Native Americans, including Hopi and Pueblo Indians.
Subject (Geographic):
Oraibi (Ariz.)--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
Schwemberger, Simeon.
Subject (Topic):
Hopi Indians--Portraits., Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies--Pictorial works., Indians of North America--Arizona--Pictorial works., Indians of North America--Pictorial works., Indians of North America--Portraits., Navajo Indians--Pictorial works., and Navajo Indians--Portraits.
A series of ten portraits of Navajo Indians follows the Hopi scenes. These are followed by a picture of a women with a 216 lb. tuna hoisted beside her, and then by a series of poor quality snapshots of a big horn sheep hunting trip and several color postcards of British Columbia., Photograph album depicting the landscape and participants of a pack trip to the Grand Canyon along the Mystic Springs and Hange trails, including views of boating on the Colorado River, Cataract Creek Canyon, the Havasupai Indian Agency, Havasupai Point and the Painted Desert., and These images are followed by a series of photographs of the Hopi pueblos of Walpi and Oraibi, showing flute and basket dancers, domestic scenes such as tending corn plants and grinding corn, spinning, weaving, making pottery, and tending children. There are several scenes in the pueblos that show the campers from the earlier series of Grand Canyon views.
Description:
Album lacks covers. Individual photographs are 15 x 20 cm. or smaller, and have repeating orotone letterpress captions. Numbers inscribed in negatives of some prints. and Purchased from William S. Reese on the Frederick S. and Carrie W. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1994.
Publisher:
George L. Rose,
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona--Pictorial works., British Columbia--Pictorial works., Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--Pictorial works., Havasupai Reservation (Ariz.)--Pictorial works., Oraibi (Ariz.)--Pictorial works., and Walpi (Ariz.)--Pictorial works.
Subject (Topic):
Hopi Indians--Pictorial works., Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies., Hunting--Pictorial works., Indians of North America--Pictorial works., and Navajo Indians--Pictorial works.
Album of photographs created by Frederick Hastings Chapin, a pharmacist and mountaineer from Hartford, Connecticut, documenting the cliff-dwellings and ruins at the Mancos Site and Mesa Verde in Montezuma County, Colorado, during the summers of 1889 and 1890. Images include detailed views of the cliff houses and other structures in Mancos Canyon, Cliff Canyon, and a branch of Johnson Canyon known as Acowitz Canyon. Other images include views of the La Plata Mountains and other geological formations in the area, contemporary American Indian wickiups made by Ute Indians, and the ranch of Richard Wetherill, a local homesteader who uncovered the Mancos Site in December 1888. Identified individuals in images include Richard Wetherill cinching the loads on packhorses, his brother John Wetherill, looking through the window of a granary, and a man wearing jodhpurs and high boots identified as probably Chapin.
Description:
Individual photographs measure 11.6 x 18.1 cm., Manuscript captions in ink at bottom of each photograph., Purchased from the William Reese Company on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2004., Spine title: Mancos Canon., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Cliff Canyon (Colo.)--Pictorial works., Johnson Canyon (Colo.)--Pictorial works, La Plata Mountains--Pictorial works, Mancos Canyon (Colo.)--Pictorial works, Mancos Site (Colo.)--Pictorial works, Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--Pictorial works, and Montezuma County (Colo.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Chapin, Frederick H. (Frederick Hastings), Wetherill, John, and Wetherill, Richard, 1858-1910
Subject (Topic):
Cliff-dwellings--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Pictorial works, and Mountains--Colorado--Pictorial works