| EASTER ISLAND
MANUSCRIPTS Included are photographic prints of two old manuscripts with Easter
Island texts, copies of petroglyphs, and copies from rongorongo boards with an explanation
of the characters in the native language. The location of the original manuscripts has not
been determined.
DATES: No date
QUANTITY: 34 prints
ARRANGEMENT: Unarranged
FINDING AID: None
ENLARGED PRINTS OF EASTER ISLAND RONGORONGO BOARDS
The images consist mostly of enlarged mounted photographic prints or photographs of
lithographs. The boards are from a variety of sources. Most material was collected by
William J. Thomson and published in "Te Pito Te Henua or Easter Island," Report
of the United States National Museum, 1889, 1901. There is also a reproduction of an
engraving by John Webber that shows a village in the interior of Hawaii. It is dated in
the 1770s.
DATES: Most probably 1880s
QUANTITY: 49 prints
ARRANGEMENT: Unarranged
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 75-13
PORTRAIT OF SETH EASTMAN (1808-1875) ON DIGHTON ROCK
Seth Eastman was an army officer perhaps best remembered for his paintings, drawings,
and sketches of American Indians and American fortifications. In 1853, while on detail to
the Office of Indian Affairs to prepare illustrations for Henry Rowe Schoolcrafts' Indian
Tribes of the United States, he traveled to New England to examine sites of
antiquities. The daguerreotype from which this print was taken was probably made then.
DATE: No date
QUANTITY: 1 print
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 81-11
WILLIAM H. EGBERTS COLLECTION OF NEW ZEALAND PHOTOGRAPHS
Egberts was a preparator in the United States National Museum Department of
Anthropology. The reason he collected the postcards of this lot is not known. They are
from the Tanner Brothers Photographic Series; and some images are by the New Zealand
Tourist Department. Four cards include portraits of Maori men with facial tattoos. One
shows two women rubbing noses.
DATE: 1925 or before
QUANTITY: 5 prints
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 81-6
EGYPTIAN, MIDDLE EASTERN, AND EUROPEAN SUBJECTS
A tourist apparently made these negatives. They include ethnological subjects and views
of ancient ruins.
DATES: No date
QUANTITY: 199 negatives
ARRANGEMENT: Undetermined
FINDING AID: List
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 104
COPIES OF EMMA WAHBNUM-YOUNG MAHKUK COLLECTION OF PRAIRIE
POTAWATOMI PORTRAITS
The collection consists of copy prints and negatives. Included among the subjects are
Bear Chief (Ma koko ma), John
Young, Joe Cook (Ke so be tuk) and his wife Wkettchi, Wigwas and his wife Nancy, Frank
Young, Willie Grey, Arthur Kitchkumee, and Wenbetoh.
Photographers include W.M. Oaks and W.R. Ireland.
DATES: One dated 1897; rest undated
QUANTITY: 7 images
ARRANGEMENT: Unarranged
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 81E
ESKIMO MATERIAL
The color print shows a mat of eider down skins "collected in the Ungava region
around 1890 by James Elphick, a Hudson Bay Company factor."
DATE: 1976
QUANTITY: 1 print
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 76-54
PHOTOGRAPHS MADE AT JOHN CANFIELD EWERS' RETIREMENT PARTY
The prints are from photographs taken by a Smithsonian photographer in Department of
Anthropology chairman's office.
DATE: 1979
QUANTITY: 4 prints
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 79-44
PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE EXECUTION OF PEDRO PRESTAN AT
ASPINWALL, PANAMA
Prestan was a rebel against the Colombian government. In 1885, he seized Aspinwall,
including the American ship Colon and other American property. Threatened by
government troops following United States intervention, the insurgents burned the city as
they abandoned it. Later the same year, they were captured and hanged.
DATE: August 18, 1885
QUANTITY: 1 print
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 81-54 |