Photographs by C. C. Pierce, G. Wharton James, and Frank H. Nowell of Navajo, Hopi, Pima, Havasupai, Flathead and Seminole Indians. Included are views of cliff dwellings, villages, and kivas and photographs of weaving, pottery making and other activities in Shipolovi, Shongopovi, and Mishongnovi pueblos, and views of the Grand Canyon of Arizona. In New Mexico, views include an old church and the feast of St. Stephen at Acoma, and the village of Laguna and In Colorado, there is one photograph of the Cliff Palace in Marcus Canyon. In Montana, the photographs consist entirely of portraits of Flathead Indian families, chiefs, and warriors. There is one photograph of Alaskan basketry, and a single portrait of the Seminole chief Billy Bowlegs in Florida
Description:
Photographs are mounted on boards, and are accompanied by typescript captions. Six photographs are accompanied by maps of Navajo, Hopi, Havasupai, Flathead and Seminole Indian Reserves. A single print has extensive hand coloring.
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona, Grand Canyon (Ariz.), Acoma (N.M.), Laguna (N.M.), Walpi (Ariz.), and Oraibi (Ariz.)
Subject (Name):
Hotte, Arthur.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Navajo Indians, Salish Indians, Pima Indians, Seminole Indians, Hopi Indians, Pueblo Indians, Rites and ceremonies, Kivas, Pueblos, Snake dance, Indian baskets, and Cliff-dwellings
Photograph album created by Sumner Matteson from a selection of his photographs of the Southwest, Montana, and Colorado. The photographs, which are captioned in a typed list that accompanies the album, date from 1899 to 1902, and depict a variety of places and events. The majority of the photographs are of the Hopi Indians, their Snake, Antelope, and Flute ceremonies, kiva interiors, as well as weaving, grinding corn, courting, working in fields, making pottery, and marketing at the Moenkopi, Mishongnovi, Shipolovi and Shongopovi Pueblos. There are also photographs of cliff-dwellings at Mesa Verde and Mancos Canyon, Colorado; Canyon de Chelly, Arizona; Pueblo Indians at Isleta and Acoma, New Mexico; Navajo and Ute Indians in New Mexico and Colorado; Penitentes in Abiquiu, New Mexico; and views of wagon trains, Indian encampments, mines, and sheepherding in Montana
Description:
Sumner Matteson, a bicycle salesman in Denver who became a photographer, traveled around the West between 1899 and 1903, photographing the Mesa Verde and Pueblo Bonito cliff-dwellings, Navajo Indians, Penitentes in New Mexico, Hopi Snake and Flute ceremonies in Arizona, the Pueblo villages of Acoma and Isleta, Montana wagon trains, and cattle and sheep roundups. He sold his own photographs, wrote articles and provided illustrations for popular magazines, and provided photographs for several books on Southwestern Indians written by others., Accompanied by a contemporary typescript containing captions and often explanatory background for almost all of the photographs in the album. Typescript titled "Index to the Frank Klepetko Album. Photos and Data by Sumner W. Matteson" and signed "Sumner W. Matteson, D.A.C. [Denver Athletic Club] Denver, Colo. Jan. 1903.", Individual photographs are 12 x 17 cm. and smaller., 157 of the photographs are platinum prints., Album and copy prints in 2 boxes., and Copy prints available for every page except the first.
Subject (Geographic):
Southwest, New, Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, Abiquiu (N.M.), Acoma (N.M.), Canyon de Chelly National Monument (Ariz.), Colorado, Isleta (N.M.), Mancos Site (Colo.), Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.), Moenkopi Pueblo (Ariz.), and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Klepetko, Frank., Matteson, Sumner W., 1867-1920., and Hermanos Penitentes
Subject (Topic):
Hopi Indians, Rites and ceremonies, Indians of North America, Cliff-dwellings, Kivas, Navajo Indians, Pueblo Indians, Snake dance, Mines and mineral resources, Sheep ranches, Wool industry, and Religious life and customs
Portrait shows from behind, a shirtless Hopi man sitting on a blanket on a board raised off the ground before a wall, weaving a blanket; body slightly to left; head in profile to left
Description:
Title from caption in red ink at foot of image. "607" at the head of the caption.
Photograph album of John Wesley Powell's Second Colorado River Expedition, containing photographs by E. O. Beaman, James Fennemore, and John K. Hillers. The first 118 photographs are attributed to Beaman, and depict the start of the expedition at the Green River Station in Wyoming, and the journey through the Red Canyon, Brown's Park, the Lodore Canyon, the Canyon of Desolation, the Cataract Canyon, and Salt Lake City, Utah, The next set of photographs in the album was probably taken by James Fennemore, showing views of Powell's expedition after his departure from Salt Lake City. They illustrate the journey from the mouth of the Dirty Devil River down through Glen Valley, Nevada, and Finally, there are several views of the Marble Canyon, the Grand Canyon, the Green River, the Virgin River, the Sevier River, Pine Creek, Kanab Creek, and a series of portraits by Hillers of Paiute, Ute and Pueblo Indians. Portraits of Hopi and Zuni Indians were probably taken by Beaman
Description:
Individual prints consist of 452 stereo-sized photographs, measuring 7.6 x 11.0 cm. or smaller, 52 larger photographs, measuring 18.5 x 10.9 cm. or smaller, and 5 photographs measuring 24.2 x 18.2 cm. or smaller. The photographs are generally not captioned. Attribution is based on secondary sources. and Insect damage to some pages, not affecting photographs.
Subject (Geographic):
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico), Grand Canyon (Ariz.), United States, and Cataract Canyon Wilderness (Utah)
Subject (Name):
Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Hopi Indians, Zuni Indians, Paiute Indians, Ute Indians, and Exploring expeditions
Photographs of the Hopi pueblo Oraibi, interiors of Hopi homes, ceremonial dances, and portraits of Hopi and possibly Navajo Indians at Oraibi
Description:
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., 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., and Contemporary coarse woven cloth photo album.
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona and Oraibi (Ariz.)
Subject (Name):
Schwemberger, Simeon.
Subject (Topic):
Hopi Indians, Rites and ceremonies, Indians of North America, and Navajo Indians
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, 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, and 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
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.
Publisher:
George L. Rose
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona, Oraibi (Ariz.), Walpi (Ariz.), Havasupai Reservation (Ariz.), British Columbia, and Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Pictorial works, Hopi Indians, Navajo Indians, Rites and ceremonies, and Hunting
Photographs of Hopi Indians taken at Oraibi and Walpi pueblos in Arizona. Included are views of pueblo structures and hogans, pottery and baskets, and of the daily activities of carrying water, herding sheep and tending other livestock, working in irrigation canals, hunting or preparing food, and caring for children. Family groups, scenes of Antelope and Snake dancers and spectators, and landscapes around the pueblos are also depicted and Most of the photographs are outdoors, but there are several formal interior portraits of individuals
Description:
"Curtis" and three-digit number on each print, many copyrighted 1900. and Accompanied by a box list.
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona., Arizona, Oraibi (Ariz.), and Walpi (Ariz.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Hopi Indians, Tewa Indians, Pueblos, and Snake dance
Four snapshots taken in 1937 at a Blackfeet Indian sun dance on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana. Accompanied by a document stating the name and place of the photographer, signed by James A. Brubaker, enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe, dated Sept. 2, 2000. Also present are three other photographs by an unidentified photographer, a Hopi house and Hopi Indians at Grand Canyon in 1935, and Blackfeet Indians at the Glacier Park Hotel in 1941
Description:
Harold Hanneman owned a variety store in Browning, Montana (on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana) from 1930 to 1965. and The three accompanying photographs carry manuscript captions on versos.
Subject (Geographic):
Blackfeet Indian Reservation (Mont.) and Arizona
Subject (Name):
Brubaker, James A.
Subject (Topic):
Siksika dance, Sun dance, Siksika Indians, Hopi Indians, and Indians of North America
Postcards with halftone reproductions by Edward Sheriff Curtis of photographs he created of Native Americans, 1904. Images include portraits of a Mohave Indian girl and an Apache Indian girl, a group of Hopi Indian children, and four Apache Indians crossing a waterway on horseback
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Each postcard has been cut on the right side of the recto.
Subject (Name):
Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952.
Subject (Topic):
Apache Indians, Hopi Indians, Indians of North America, and Mohave Indians
