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National Photo Company - Native Americans and Eskimos (Inuit), 1909-1932
| Content Provider | Library of Congress - Photographs |
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| Description | Contents are divided into four sections. Section 12337-1: Indians visiting Washington, D.C. includes Southern Cheyenne, Osage, and Yakima chiefs; Hopi Indians perfoming snake dance and war dance at Capitol; representatives from unnamed Connecticut state tribe; and various other groups of unidentified Indians. Section 12337-2: Indian chiefs. Include individual portrits (most identified on the back of the photograph) of chiefs from Apache, Brule, Cheyenne, Sioux, Shoshoni, Nez Perce, Umatilla, Osage, Kiowa, Pima Tonkawa, Warm Springs, Comanche, and Flathead (Salish) tribes. Also includes a group of Ute Chief and a Blackfeet Indian chief recording his language on recording device. Section 12337-3: Eskimos. Includes half-tone reproductions of reindeer herding and freighting in Alaska; group portraits of Eskimo women with reindeer; a grouup of children sitting on porch; and an Eskimo man smoking a cigar. Section 12337-4: Hopi. Includes a series of photographs documenting stages of a snake dance and other ceremonials in a pueblo village, including a purification ceremony; and three portraits of Yu-Kehomia, a "hostile, opposed to education." Section 12337-4: Paiute. Includes posed outdoor portraits of various Paiute men; three men starting a fire with kindling; an Indian agency in Utah; and daily life in a small town. Section 12337-4: Navajo. Includes women weaving on looms outdoors; adobe buildings and village; and portraits of unidentified man. Section 12337-4: Apache and Pima. Includes various photographs of men laboring on the Salt River Project, Arizona, efforts such as irrigation, agriculture, and road construction. Women are shown weaving blankets, making baskets, and gathering wood near dwellings. Section 12337-4: Education. Includes school girls in cooking class and a laundry instruction class, and boys in a sewing class at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania; boys in a carpentry class and the school choir from Flandreau Indian School, South Dakota; a sewing class from Bismark Indian School, North Dakota; a group portrait of students from Mesquakie Day School (Fox), South Dakota; a Shoshone Indian School building and a Kickapoo Indian School building; and small children in night clothes "watching for Santa Claus." Section 12337-4: Agriculture. Includes men with horse-drawn farming equipment; women husking corn; a flower garden; men irrigating with shovels; a Thanksgiving dance; fruits and vegetables; and sheep. Section 12337-4: Dwellings. Include a Shoshone tepee; western home of an Omaha woman; view of plains on the Blackfeet Reservation; a Chippewa wigwam; Colville agency; cliff dwellings; and a totem pole. Section 12337-4: Miscellaneous. Individual & group portraits represent Taos Pueblo, Seminole, Shoshone, Apache, Kickapoo, Cherokee, Blackfeet, Comanche, and Sioux tribes, most of which are identified in captions. |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Language | English |
| Part of Series | Groups of Images (LOTs) |
| Requires | HTML5 supported browser |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Indians of North America--1900-1940. |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Photograph |
