Photographs of Navajo medicine and sweat lodge ceremonies, including views of the construction of the lodges, preparations for the ceremonies, sandpaintings, and participants. There are also photographs of family groups, the ruins in Canyon de Chelly...
Description:
Individual photographs are 11.6 x 16.6 cm., with copyright statement incribed. Letterpress or manuscript captions accompany each photograph, 32 of which form a numbered series with descriptive captions.
Publisher:
Simeon Schwemberger
Subject (Geographic):
Chelly, Canyon de (Ariz.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Rites and ceremonies, Navajo Indians, and Sweatbaths
Albums of photographic prints compiled by ethnobotanist Victor King Chesnut of Yuki Indians, Wailaki Indians, and botanical specimens on the Round Valley Indian Reservation, ca. 1898. Photographers of several of the images include William J. Nolan of...
Description:
Victor King Chesnut worked for the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, 1894-1904. In 1902, Chesnut published "Plants Used by the Indians of Mendocino County, California" based on ethnobotanical information procured at t...
Subject (Geographic):
California, Round Valley Indian Reservation, California., Round Valley (Calif.), Round Valley Indian Reservation (Calif.), and Ukiah (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Chesnut, V. K. 1867-1938. (Victor King),, Connor, J. Torrey, 1869-1937., Hunt, L. E., Nolan, William J., Smith, Nettie., and Round Valley Indian School
Subject (Topic):
Acorns as food, Ethnobotany, Indians of North America, Photography of trees, Pomo Indians, Shrubs, Sweatbaths, Trees, Wailaki Indians, Whilkut Indians, and Yuki Indians
