| WHITING, ALFRED F.
(1912-1978), Papers Alfred F. Whiting was a botanist, anthropologist,
ethnobotanist, and museum man. The material reflects a period when he was a staff
anthropologist in the Ponape District of the United States Trust Territory of the Pacific.
Most documents concern Ponape, but there are a few that concern other areas of Micronesia.
One notebook, for example, concerns a conference on self-government for Truk.
Some materials are personal but also reflect Whiting's work. There are also official
reports, materials relating to meetings, summaries of economic conditions, and replies to
inquiries from personnel of the territorial government. Other material concerns material
culture (including some on plants), the history of Ponape, and the island's society and
social problems. Material concerning the burial ground Nan Matol relates to information
provided Saul H. Riesenberg in archeological work. Sared K. Aiseam, whose diary is
included, was a student at an intermediate school. Some linguistic texts (largely practice
materials for learning Ponape) and photographs are the work of Marjorie Grant Whiting. The
Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff has Whiting's other papers.
Correspondents include Sared K. Aiseam, Homer G. Barnett, K.M. Carroll, Mary Comack,
Father Costigan, Jack Fisher, R.E. Gibson, R. Halverson, Henry Hedges, Donald Heron, Ruth
Ingram, P.S. Kemskei, Shighu Keneshiro, R.P. Law, E.P. Luper, Frank Mahoney, Sheila
Malcolm, J.A. McConell, Frank E. Midkiff, F.H. Mounton, Saul H. Riesenberg, J.L. Taylor,
E.D. Thomas, John Toben, and others.
DATES: 1952-1954
QUANTITY: ca. 2.6 linear meters (ca. 8.5 linear feet)
ARRANGEMENT: (1) Diaries, 1952-1954; (2) outgoing letters, 1952-1954; (3) incoming
letters, 1952-1954; (4) notes filed by subject; (5) linguistic tests; (6) miscellaneous
notes; (7) Nan Matol archeology project; (8) diary of Sared K. Aiseam; (9) maps and
diagrams; (10) printed and processed material; (11) subject index of photographs; (12)
photographic print and negative file; (13) Japanese book about Micronesia; (14) notebooks
of miscellaneous materials donated by P. David Seaman.
FINDING AID: Register
NEGATIVES OF CHARLES WILCOMB'S BASKETS
Charles Wilcomb (1865-1915) was a curator at the Memorial Museum (now the M.H. de Young
Museum), Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, and founder of the Oakland Museum in Oakland,
California. According to Otis T. Mason, he had a "large and choice collection of
California basketry."
The glass negatives show items from his collection. Identified images include baskets
of the Pomo and Indians of Tulare County. Some images appeared in Mason's "Aboriginal
American Basketry," Report of the United States National Museum, 1902, pages
171-548.
DATE: ca. 1900
QUANTITY: 18 negatives
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 73-26F.
ELLERY VALDIMIR WILCOX (1882-1960) PHOTOGRAPHS OF AMERICAN
INDIANS
Ellery Valdimir Wilcox studied at the Illinois College of Photography at Effingham,
Illinois. From 1899 to 1912, he was employed at various studios and photographic supply
houses in Illinois, South Dakota, Ohio, Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota. In 1912, he
purchased the Mason studio in Scotland, South Dakota, and operated it until 1947. He was
active with the Photographers Association of America, Master Photo Finishers Association,
and Photographic Society of America. He was involved with the organization of South
Dakota's first photographic association and the South Dakota chapter of the Master Photo
Finishers Association.
The examples of Wilcox's work were probably made at his Scotland studio. Beyond the
general subjects, they are largely unidentified.
Also included are three snapshots of tombstones of Indians: Yankton Dakota Joseph
Selwyn, or Medicine Cow; (ca. 1821-1898), John Pretty Bull (1851-1924); and Feather in Ear
(Wiyakaoin; d. 1900).
DATE: Early twentieth century
QUANTITY: 22 prints
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 83-44
WILKES EXPEDITION OCEANIC SPECIMENS
In the 1880s and 1890s, the United States Fish Commission dispatched its ship the Albatross
to the southern Pacific. The Smithsonian's Department of Anthropology sent along a
photographic album of Oceania specimens, including items collected on the United States
Exploring Expedition led by Charles Wilkes in 1838-1842. Scientists on the voyage were to
secure additional information about the items. The photographs show artifacts from Fiji,
Hawaii, Marquesas, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Samoa, and the Solomons. Some items are
identified as Polynesian.
DATES: 1880s-1890s
QUANTITY: 38 prints
ARRANGEMENT: Unarranged
FINDING AID: None
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 73-50
ELIZABETH BAYLEY WILLIS COLLECTION
Elizabeth Bayley Willis was a textile historian and expert on decorative arts
affiliated with several museums, including the San Francisco Museum of Art and the
University of Washington Henry Gallery. In the 1950s, she was an advisor to Indian
government officials on the development and export of arts and crafts products. In
1959-1964, she carried out research on the tribal arts of northeastern India and Bhutan.
The collection includes prints, slides, negative slides, and a postcard. The
photographs were made in Assam, Siang, Khasi, and other areas of northeastern India. Some
are by Willis. Others are by Verrier Elwin and Panna Pal.
DATES: ca. 1950s-1960s
QUANTITY: 84 prints
ARRANGEMENT: Undetermined
FINDING AID: Descriptions by Willis
RESTRICTION: The material is available for examination; but the archives should be
consulted about the availability of reproductions.
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 79-11
PHOTOGRAPH OF A CHARLES BANKS WILSON DRAWING OF QUAPAWS
The title is "Arkansea Indian (Quapaw) Circa 1700 with Calumets." The
original was a pencil drawing that shows model Ed Quapaw, a three-quarter blood Quapaw
with a mixture of Peoria and Shawnee, holding two feather-decorated pipes. The subject
appears with the body decoration, hairdress, and other decorations of a
seventeenth-century Quapaw. Accompanying the photographs is a newspaper clipping about
Banks, the Quapaw, and the drawing.
DATE: 1986 or before
QUANTITY: 1 black and white print
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 87-13
H.K. WILSON ALBUMS
Most prints were made on the Western Navaho Reservation. Shown are views of the agency,
Indian dances, Theodore Roosevelt, and other subjects.
DATE: ca. 1916
QUANTITY: 56 prints
ARRANGEMENT: Undetermined
FINDING AID: None
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 81-20
PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS OF WINOLD REISS PAINTINGS
Winold Reiss was a German landscape artist, muralist, and architect who immigrated to
the United States in 1915. After World War I, he began to spend his summers at Glacier
National Park, painting Blackfeet Indians. The photographs are of post-World War I
paintings.
DATE: No date
QUANTITY: 80 prints
ARRANGEMENT: Unarranged
FINDING AID: None
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 77-15
GROUP PORTRAIT OF WINTUS IN SAN FRANCISCO
The print has no further information.
DATE: 1927
QUANTITY: 1 print
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 76-140
DADI WIRZ PHOTOGRAPHS
Dadi Wirz is a Swiss-born artist, print maker, and photographer. He has taught at the
École du Louvre in Paris, Ohio State University, and the Rhode Island School of Design in
Providence. In 1952 and 1955, he traveled to the Sepik River area of New Guinea with his
father, anthropologist Paul Wirz. His prints show sculpture, body painting, and views of
New Guinea life.
DATES: 1952 and 1955
QUANTITY: 133 prints
ARRANGEMENT: Unarranged
FINDING AID: None
RESTRICTION: The material is under copyright.
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 109
"WOODLAND ALGONQUIANS OF WISCONSIN"
Shown is a "live-in" course offered at the University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee, by Cavalliere Ketchum. Largely they concern the construction of a birchbark
lodge. Participants included Chippewa, Menominee, and Potawatomi.
DATE: 1976
QUANTITY: 45 prints
ARRANGEMENT: Apparently in the sequence of activities
FINDING AID: List
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 78-47
HOWARD WOODY COLLECTION OF INDIAN POSTCARDS
Included are photomechanical prints showing Iron Hail (Dakota); James A. Garfield
(Apache); Yuma men before a mud house; a Dakota chief at Frontier Days at Cheyenne,
Wyoming; a Hopi weaver; Hopi House at Grand Canyon; a Hopi street scene; Seminole wedding;
and other subjects.
DATES: Early 20th century
QUANTITY: 13 postcards
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 92-37
WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION EXCAVATIONS IN CHATHAM
COUNTY, GEORGIA, AND RELATED SPECIMENS
Included are images relating to 9CH4 (Bilbo Site), 9CH11 (Walthour site), 9CH2, and
9CH8. The archeologist was Joseph Caldwell.
DATE: 1941
QUANTITY: 180 negatives and 20 prints
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 87-3
WORMINGTON, HANNAH MARIE (1914-1994), Papers
H. Marie Wormington (known socially as Mrs. George D. Volk) received her education from
the University of Denver (B.A., 1935) and Radcliffe College (M.A. in anthropology, 1950,
and Ph.D., 1954). She joined the Denver Museum of Natural History staff in 1935 and was
the curator of archeology there from 1937 to 1968. She has also been affiliated as a
visiting or adjunct professor with Arizona State University, Colorado College, the
University of Colorado, and the University of Wyoming. In 1977, she received an honorary
doctorate in humane letters from Colorado State University.
Immediately after her B.A., Wormington traveled in France (her mother's native land),
where she met many leading archeologists and worked under Henri Martin in an Paleolithic
excavation in the Dordogne. She retained an interest in French archeology for the rest of
her life.
After she became affiliated with the Denver Museum of Natural History, Wormington's
speciality became early man in North America and the Fremont and Uncompaghre cultures. In
1936, she cataloged the Lindenmeier material in the collection of the Denver Museum of
Natural History and excavated the Johnson Site (a Folsom camp) near La Porte, Colorado. In
1937-1938, she excavated rock shelters in Montrose County and, in 1938-1941 and again in
1947, worked at a Fremont village site in Grand County, Utah. In 1951-1952, she excavated
rock shelters in Mesa County, Colorado, and in 1955-1956, she surveyed prehistoric
migration routes of ancient hunters in the Province of Alberta, Canada. During 1966-1967,
she worked at the Frazier Agate Basin site in Weld County, Colorado; and, in the following
year, she joined Joe Ben Wheat at the Jurgens Cody site in the same county. She also
served as a consultant on an excavation of mammoth and associated material in the Valley
of Mexico (1952); excavation of a human skeleton near Turin, Iowa (1955); excavations at
Onion Portage, Alaska (1963); the Scottsbluff butchering site near Chadron, Nebraska
(1971); and Hot Springs Mammoth Site, South Dakota (1977).
Wormington is probably most remembered for her syntheses of great amounts of data on
early man. Especially well known is her Ancient Man in North America, published
by the DMNH in 1939 with new editions appearing in 1944, 1949, and 1957. In 1947, through
the DMNH, she published Prehistoric Man of the Southwest.
Wormington served as vice president of the Society for American Archaeology in
1950-1951 and in 1955-1956. In 1968, she became the first woman to serve as president of
the SAA.
The papers reflect many aspects of Wormington's professional life, although there is
relatively little concerning her curatorial work. Correspondents include James M.
Adovasio, Larry D. Agenbroad, George Agogino, Duane C. Anderson, Juan Armenta, Robert
Ashton, Ignacio Bernal, John O. Brew, Alan L. Bryan, David Burley, Marie Madeleine
Baboulet, Richard Carrington, George F. Carter, E. Stephen Cassells, J. Desmond Clark,
John L. Cotter, Richard D. Daugherty, E. Mott Davis, Charles C. Di Peso, Don W. Dragoo,
Bertha P. Dutton, Loren C. Eisley, Florence Hawley Ellis, John C. Ewers, Paul H. Ezell,
Franklin Folsom, Stephen Forbath, Richard G. Forbis, George C. Frison, F.M. Fryxell, Paul
Gebhart, Joyce Griffin, Julian Hayden, C. Vance Haynes, Thor Heyerdahl, William N. Irving,
Henry Irwin, Cynthia Irwin-Williams, Lawrence Jackson, Elaine Johnson, Frederick Johnson,
Neil M. Judd, A.J. Kelso, Mary Elizabeth King, Ruthann Knudson, L.S.B. Leakey, H.L.
Minshall, James Robert Moriarty III, Noël Morss, Hallam L. Movius, Dennis E. Puleson,
Barbara Purdy, Bruce E. Rippeteau, Frank H.H. Roberts, Jr., Richard Shulter, Dennis J.
Stanford, R.L. Stephenson, Robert Stuckenrath, Clara Lee Tanner, Marvin E. Tong, Christie
G. Turner, Sol Tax, Harry Walton, A.J. Waring, and Sharon Young.
DATES: 1920s-1990s
QUANTITY: ca. 10.8 linear meters (ca. 35 linear feet)
ARRANGEMENT: The material has no discernible overall arrangement.
FINDING AID: List
JEAN REESE WORTHLEY COLLECTION OF PHILIPPINE POSTCARDS
Included are color and black-and-white postcards. Shown are city views, including
government buildings, street scenes,
bridges, parks, churches, and a harbor scene in Manilla. There are also portraits of
natives and a miscellany of other subjects.
DATE: No date
QUANTITY: 35 items
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 83-31
BILL WRIGHT PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE CELEBRATION OF ST. ANTHONY,
YSLETA, TEXAS.
Bill Wright is an Abilene, Texas, photographer. Three photographs were made at Ysleta
Pueblo, Texas, and show activities relating to the celebration of St. Anthony, June, 1986.
and dancers before the church. The other photographs were made in Coahuila, Mexico, and
show Kickapoos and Black Seminoles. Most of them are portraits, but some show houses and
other structures
DATE: 1986; ca. 1993
QUANTITY: 17 prints
RESTRICTION: The photographs are under copyright.
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 91-3
HAMILTON WRIGHT, JR., PHOTOGRAPHS
Hamilton Wright, Sr., an early promoter of Miami Beach, founded a public relations firm
that made travelogs, often for domestic and foreign governments. They were distributed to
motion picture houses around the world. Hamilton Wright, Jr., continued his father's work.
Included are early lantern slides that concern Egyptian pyramids and the tomb of
Tutankhamen. The collection consists mostly of relatively recent film transparencies
showing industry, scenic views, people, and some political events in Bolivia, Chile,
Egypt, Lebanon, Mexico, Peru, Taiwan, Tennessee, Texas, and Venezuela. Wright donated his
motion picture film and related materials to the University of California at Los Angeles.
DATES: ca. 1925-1965
QUANTITY: ca. 1500 items
ARRANGEMENT: Geographical
FINDING AID: List
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 76-35
BILL WYRICK'S PHOTOGRAPH OF THE DEDICATION OF THE CHEYENNE
AND ARAPAHO MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER
The prints were furnished by the center that is in Cantonment, Oklahoma.
DATE: 1977
QUANTITY: 12 prints
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 78-44 |