Photographs of Navajo medicine and sweat lodge ceremonies, including views of the construction of the lodges, preparations for the ceremonies, sandpaintings, and participants. There are also photographs of family groups, the ruins in Canyon de Chelly...
Description:
Individual photographs are 11.6 x 16.6 cm., with copyright statement incribed. Letterpress or manuscript captions accompany each photograph, 32 of which form a numbered series with descriptive captions.
Publisher:
Simeon Schwemberger
Subject (Geographic):
Chelly, Canyon de (Ariz.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Rites and ceremonies, Navajo Indians, and Sweatbaths
Photographs created by John Willis of individuals and events that document life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, 1993-2006
Description:
John Willis is a documentary photographer and an instructor of photography at Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vermont.
Subject (Geographic):
United States, Badlands National Park (S.D.), Batesland (S.D.), Kyle (S.D.), Manderson (S.D.), and Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)
Subject (Name):
Chips, Albert O., 1901-1966, Chips, Eva M., 1908-1958, Chips, Victoria, Crow, Tommy, Good Voice Elk, Gary, Lundstrom, Brett Lee, Morrison, Wilbur, Reddest, Leroy, Reddest, Orville, Sitting Bear, Vern, Willis, John, 1957-, Yellow Bull, Ashley, Yellow Bull, Delores, Yellow Bull, Wendell, and Oglala Lakota College
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Indians of North America, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Casualties, Oglala Indians, Powwows, Public housing, Sweatbaths, and Teton Indians
