| LANTERN SLIDES OF
FERDINAND PETTRICK SCULPTURES In 1956, the Catholic University of American
Department of Anthropology donated the black-and-white slides, and they became part of
USNM accession 211,312. Formerly, they were in the possession of Father John M. Cooper.
Zelia Nuttall's name, however, was on the original container. In 1927, she was planning to
write a biography of Pettrick and interested the president of The Catholic University of
America in obtaining photographs of his work.
The images are of pieces in the Pontifico Museo Missionario Etnologicao at the Vatican.
The original sketches--the basis of the sculptures--were drawn from life when Pettrick was
residing in Washington, D.C., in 1837.
Included are portraits of Creek, Dakota, Fox, Sauk, and Winnebago, and scenes showing
scalping, hunting, and a council between Indians and United States government officials.
Further information about the sculptures can be found in Paolo dalla Torre, "Le
Plastiche a Saggetto Indigeno Nordamericano del Pattrich nel Pontificio Museo Missionario
Etnologicao," Annali Lateranensi, volume 4 (1940), pages 9-96, and Hans
Geller, Franz and Ferdinand Pettrich, Dresden, 1955. Letters concerning Nuttall's
interest are in the latter work.
The slides make useable but not perfect prints.
DATES: ca. 1927 (slides)
QUANTITY: 28 slides
ARRANGEMENT: Unarranged
FINDING AID: None
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 20
PHILIPPINE PHOTOGRAPHS
The collection is part of the Smithsonian's Victor J. Evans collection. Included are
hand-colored prints that include a Moro man and an Igorot woman.
DATE: No date
QUANTITY: 2 prints
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 79-54
PHILIPPINE AND MIDDLE EASTERN SUBJECTS
Edward Nasif collected the negatives, but an unidentified Filipino made them.
DATES: 1934-1935
QUANTITY: ca. 200 items
ARRANGEMENT: Unarranged
FINDING AID: None
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 111
PHOTOGRAPH OF A DRUM
Other than a suggestion that the drum is Winnebago, the object is unidentified.
DATE: No date
QUANTITY: 1 print and 1 negative
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 81O
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT PHOTOGRAPHS
Included are relics and curiosities such as an "Aztec" mummy, an infant mummy
and a cyst, "Henry Smith's scull," and the Lansing [Kansas] skull. One
photograph is by Hudson, of Paris, Texas.
DATES: ca. 1887-1907
QUANTITY: 4 prints
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 86-40
PILLING, JAMES CONSTANTINE (1846-1895), Papers
James C. Pilling attended Gonzaga College, a Jesuit high school in his native
Washington, D.C. As a young man, through self instruction, he became a highly proficient
stenographer and worked for several government agencies. In 1875, John Wesley Powell
engaged him for the United States Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain
Regions. Besides an administrator, Pilling became a bibliographer, compilating data on
books and manuscripts in North American languages.
In 1879, when Powell founded the Bureau of American Ethnology, Pilling became its chief
clerk. When, Powell became director of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) as well
as the BAE director, Pilling became the USGS chief clerk but continued his duties with the
BAE. In 1891, illness forced him to leave administration, and he became a BAE ethnologist.
In 1885, the BAE presented Pilling's work as Proof-sheets of a Bibliography of
North American Indian Languages. This was an edition of one-hundred copies. It was
intended to stimulate interest in Pilling's project and to promote cooperation from
scholars of American Indian languages. Between 1887 and 1894, Pilling revised his work
into bibliographies of Eskimauan, Siouan, Iroquoian, Muskhogean, Algonquian, Athapascan,
Chinookan, Salishan, and Wakashan (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletins 1, 5, 6, 9, 13,
14, 15, 16, and 19).
Pilling is also credited with the early development of the Bureau of American Ethnology
library. He was also the early caretaker of the BAE archives.
In part, the letters are those Pilling received in the course of his bibliographic
work, although some concern other matters. Most are dated between 1883 and 1895. In
addition to the letters, there are a few originals of the biographical sketches that
appear in the bibliographies. There is similar material in the BAE files, especially for
the years 1879-1882. Related outgoing letters are at the John Carter Brown Library, Brown
University, Providence, Rhode Island. This collection of incoming letters was at the John
Carter Brown Library until 1991. The BAE lent both incoming and outgoing letters to George
P. Winship for completion of Pilling's work. Winship is the addressee of a few letters.
The great bulk of the collection consists of card files of bibliographic data. Some
were not published. A few notes and letters are interfiled. Some relate to the brief
biographies in the bibliographies..
DATES: 1879-1897
QUANTITY: ca. 7.2 linear meter (ca. 25 linear feet)
ARRANGEMENT: (1) Correspondence; (2) bibliography of American Indian languages; (3)
bibliography of Mexican Indian languages; (4) addresses for distribution of publications;
(5) sale prices of American Indian language material; (6) extra cards; (7) miscellany
FINDING AID: List of correspondents with dates of letters
PORTRAIT OF PINE RIDGE GROUP AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES,
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The print shows a delegation of Dakotas who sought assistance from the United States
National Archives for recovery and preservation of their tribe's history and culture.
DATE: 1975
QUANTITY: 19 prints
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 76-92
PHOTOGRAPHS OF PISCATAWAYS
Most prints show Turkey Tayac XII (Philip Proctor). They also include Proctor's home,
the burial ground, dance, herb gathering, and food preparation.
DATE: Undated
QUANTITY: 19 prints
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 79-45
PHOTOGRAPHS OF PISCATAWAYS
The collection consists of negatives, some that show Turkey Tayac XII (Philip Proctor).
DATE: No date
QUANTITY: 6 negatives.
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 81-47
HENRI F. PITTIER (1857-1950) PHOTOGRAPHS
Henri F. Pittier was a Swiss-born geographer, botanist, and anthropologist and founding
director of the Instituto Físico-geograacute;fico de Costa Rica. Some prints, from
Pittier's own negatives, are portraits of Guatuso Indians and views of pottery making,
food preparation, and other activities. There are also photographs of artifacts, mainly
Indian whistles from the collections of the National Museum in San José. A sheet of music
accompanies the photographs.
DATES: No date
QUANTITY: 128 prints
ARRANGEMENT: Unarranged
FINDING AID: None
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 128
NEGATIVES OF PLAINS INDIAN DRAWINGS
The drawings are unidentified. Three are battle scenes and one shows a camp and designs
on tipis.
DATE: No date
QUANTITY: 8 negatives of 4 drawings
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 12B.
COPY OF PAINTING OF UNIDENTIFIED PLAINS INDIAN
The Indian is wearing a war bonnet and two medals. Donald Neconie, of Washington, D.C.,
donated the material.
DATE: No date
QUANTITY: 1 black and white and 2 color polaroid prints
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 81G.
PHOTOGRAPHS OF PLAINS INDIANS
The black-and-white prints include dances and a grass hut. The subjects may be Wichita.
DATE: Probably ca. 1900
QUANTITY: 5 prints
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 95-20
PONCA DELEGATION, 1858
The print is of the delegation in New York. It is a copy print of an image by Jeremiah
Gurney.
QUANTITY: 1 print
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 86-31
RICHARD PORHT COLLECTION
The lot includes two copy prints. One shows a mounted Crow warrior in battle regalia.
The other show two Indians before a tipi. One is the Crow Spotted Jack Rabbit.
DATE: No date (ca. 1900)
QUANTITY: 2 copy prints
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 93-15C.
MARJORIE MERIWEATHER POST (1887-1973) COLLECTION
Marjorie Meriweather Post was a Washington, D.C., business woman and philanthropist.
She was also a collector of many different things. Included are photographic prints and
art prints that include McKinney and Hall lithographs and show Apache, Dakota, and
Duwamish subjects. There are also photographs of Buffalo Bill Cody and kachinas.
DATE: No date
QUANTITY: 12 items
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 75-46
PHOTOGRAPHIC POSTCARDS FROM GERMAN MUSEUMS
The postcards show a Tlingit totem pole, Eastern bark canoe, and Hopi kachina in the
Museum für Völkerkunde; a diorama in the Völkerkundliches Indianer Museum showing
warriors returning home from battle; a Dakota effigy pipe; and a Hidatsa skin painting
with locations not given.
DATE: No date
QUANTITY: 6 postcards
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 81B.
PHOTOGRAPHIC POSTCARDS WITH INDIAN SUBJECTS
Most subjects are Fox Indians of Tama, Iowa. There are a few portraits of Crow, Dakota,
Navaho, Taos, and Winnebago subjects. They include portraits and views of wickiups.
The collection was donated by the Nebraska Historical Society.
DATES: No date
QUANTITY: 20 postcards
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 88-24
PHOTOGRAPHS OF POTAWATOMIS
The prints were used by James A. Clifton in The Prairie People: Continuity and
Change, 1977. Clifton took some photographs. Others are by Robert L. Bee.
DATE: No date
QUANTITY: 21 prints
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 78-46
PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWING POTTERY MAKING IN SINOLOA
The prints were part of an exhibit at the University of Missouri Museum of
Anthropology. They show a dwelling and various stages in molding and firing pots. Included
is a leaflet by Ward F. Weakly and James S. Griffith.
DATE: No date
QUANTITY: 14 prints and three mimeographed pages
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 86-47
PORTRAIT OF MR. POWELL
The print is a portrait of a white man. By the tradition of the family of Dorothy P.
Shulman, the donor, he was the father of the Seminole leader Osceola. The print may be
from a daguerreotype.
DATE: No date
QUANTITY: 1 print
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 76-76
PHOTOGRAPHS OF A JOHN WESLEY POWELL EXHIBIT
The National Museum of Natural History exhibit was installed in a single case in the
north entry hall. Planned by Smithsonian librarian Janette Saquet to observe the
one-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Bureau of American Ethnology, it
summarizes Powell's anthropological work.
DATE: 1981
QUANTITY: 1 print
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 81-53
PORTRAITS OF JOHN WESLEY POWELL
The enlarged prints were made from two negatives. One portrait is by Charles Parker, of
Washington, D.C.
DATES: ca. 1890 and 1898
QUANTITY: 5 prints
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 68
SUSAN K. POWER COLLECTION OF FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS
Susan K. Power was the great granddaughter of the Oglala Dakota Two Bears. She allowed
the archives to copy her family photographs and relevant data. They include adults and
children, often in formal poses. Some images show several generations. Subjects are
sometimes shown in European situations and dress: one photograph shows a man in cowboy
clothing; in another the subjects are in football uniforms; in yet another a woman wears
in a traditional European-type wedding gown. Several photographs show Indian dress and
situations.
Included are photographs of Annie Archambault, Charles Archambault, Clara Archambault,
Harry Archambault, Mae Archambault, Abraham Buckley, Leo Cadotte, Annie Gates, Frank
Gates, John Gates, Josephine Gates, Mary Gates, Josephine Halsey, Helen Has Tricks,
Josephine Kelly, James McLean, Paddie Miller, Susan K. Power, Frances Red Tomahawk, Basil
Two Bears, and Josephine Two Bears. One photograph includes a framed portrait of Two
Moons.
Most of the photographers are unidentified. Those identified include Frank B. Fiske;
Fuller and Fansfer, of Fort Yates, North Dakota; and J.Q. Miller, of Aberdeen, South
Dakota.
DATES: Most undated; most appear late nineteenth and early twentieth century; a few are
dated between 1908 and 1988
QUANTITY: 43 prints and 40 pages
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 89-14
POWHATAN'S MANTLE
The photograph accompanied a news release from the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation,
November 17, 1989, concerning the loan of the mantle by the Oxford University Ashmolean
Museum for display at Jamestown.
DATE: n.d.
QUANTITY: 1 print and 3 pages of text
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 93-15B.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY RICHARD H. PRATT (1840-1924) AND NANA PRATT
Richard Pratt, an army officer who was head of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural
Institute Indian Division in Virginia and, later, organized the Carlisle Indian Industrial
School in Pennsylvania. The photographs were apparently made while he and his daughter
were on an American tour. The images include Indians, but they are largely unidentified.
Some are Southwest and Northwest Coast subjects. Pratt's granddaughter, Mrs. S. Clark
Seelye, donated the photographs.
DATE: 1896
QUANTITY: 30 prints and negatives
ARRANGEMENT: Unarranged
FINDING AID: None
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 81I.
JOHN A. PRICE PHOTOGRAPHS
John A. Price was an officer on the U.S.S. Philadelphia when it visited the
Admiralty Islands and Samoa. Most images are of laborers. An unrelated photograph of a
Palaung woman of Burma is also included.
DATE: No date
QUANTITY: 11 prints
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 82-29
PUEBLO RUINS
Included are prints of views by William Henry Jackson, John K. Hillers, and others.
DATES: 1870s-1880s (much undated)
QUANTITY: 39 prints
ARRANGEMENT: Unarranged
FINDING AID: None
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 143 |