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 p...
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 cer...
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
Itinerary of the expedition of Col. Emilio Langberg, military inspector of Chihuahua, along the Rio Bravo border in 1851. His account describes the regions and histories of Chihuahua and Coahuila, the customs of the local Indians, and their relations ...
Subject (Geographic):
Southwest, New., Chihuahua (Mexico : State), Coahuila (Mexico : State), Mexico, United States., Monclova (Mexico), United States, and Mexico.
Subject (Name):
Barchesky, Enrique. and Langberg, Emilio.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Description and travel, and Boundaries
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 a...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Southwest, New, Colorado, Cliff Canyon (Colo.), Johnson Canyon (Colo.), La Plata Mountains, Mancos Canyon (Colo.), Mancos Site (Colo.), Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.), and Montezuma County (Colo.)
Subject (Name):
Chapin, Frederick H. (Frederick Hastings), Wetherill, John., and Wetherill, Richard, 1858-1910.
Subject (Topic):
Cliff-dwellings, Indians of North America, and Mountains
Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)
Published / Created:
1876.
Call Number:
WA Photos Folio 54
Image Count:
112
Abstract:
Album of photographs of Indians of North America assembled in 1876 from images in the collection of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. The images in the photographs were originally created ca. 1868-1876, and cons...
Description:
Additional identification information for the majority of images in the album is available through the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland.
Subject (Geographic):
East (U.S.), Great Lakes Region (North America), Great Plains, Middle Atlantic States, Middle West, New England, Northwest, Pacific, Southern States, Southwest, New, and Fort Hall (Idaho : Fort)
Subject (Name):
Bell, C. M. ca. 1849-1893. (Charles Milton),, Blackmore, William, 1827-1878, Easterly, Thomas M. 1809-1882. (Thomas Martin),, Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882., Gurney, Benjamin., Gurney, Jeremiah, 1812-1895., Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942., McClees, James Earle, 1821-1887., Red Cloud, 1822-1909, Shindler, A. Zeno 1823-1899. (Antonio Zeno),, Ulke, Henry, 1821-1910., Ulke, Julius., Ulke, Lee., Vannerson, Julian, b. 1827., Westmann, Orloff R., Blackmore Museum (Salisbury, England), Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), Northern Arapaho Tribe, and United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Crow Indian Agency
Chart of head and face masks used in Navaho ceremonies; it is based on the images on plates in Berard Haile. Head and face masks in Navaho ceremonialism (St. Michaels, Ariz.: St. Michaels Press, 1947).
Description:
On sheet: This chart illustrates combinations of masks used in Nightway ceremonies. Consult Haile. Navajo head and face masks in Navajo ceremonialism. St. Michaels, Arizona. 1947.
Publisher:
St. Michael's Press
Subject (Geographic):
Southwest, New
Subject (Topic):
Night Chant (Navajo rite), Navajo masks, Navajo Indians, Rites and ceremonies, Medicine, and Indians of North America
