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1. Beauty Queens Navajo
- Creator:
- Erdoes, Richard, 1912-2008
- Published / Created:
- 1975, undated
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2609
- Collection Title:
- Richard Erdoes papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 47 | Navajo Ecology History, Fair School Industry, Miccosukee, Mohawk, NYC Comm House
- Image Count:
- 21
- Description:
- The description of this slide reflects the way that Erdoes organized 35mm slides. Erdoes arranged his slides in labeled containers that were sub-divided into labeled sections. The title for this image has been transcribed from its sub-section label; images of other slides from the same sub-section share the container title. The date listed here reflects a span of known dates associated the sub-section. In some cases, titles have been expanded to note particular individuals who appear frequently and who were identified by Erdoes in captions. Individual slide captions have not been transcribed or captured during digitization.
- Subject (Name):
- Navajo Indians--Pictorial works and Navajo women--New Mexico--Pictorial works
- Subject (Topic):
- Beauty contests--United States--Pictorial works, Indians of North America --Clothing, Indians of North America --Pictorial works, and Indians of North America --Rites and ceremonies
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Beauty Queens Navajo
2. Photograph album of a rodeo in the American southwest.
- Published / Created:
- 1930
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 327
- Image Count:
- 18
- Abstract:
- Album of photographs of a rodeo with primarily American Indian participants, probably in the American southwest, ca. 1930. The images of action include men riding horses, steers, and bulls, in addition to roping and bulldogging steers. Other images show a man thrown from a horse and another depicts an injured man being attended to on the ground. Remaining images include American Indian women, possibly in connection with a rodeo queen contest, a wagon pulled by mules, and groups of people encamped, probably around the rodeo arena.
- Description:
- Individual photographs measure 11.2 x 16.5 cm.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Southwest, New--Pictorial works
- Subject (Topic):
- Beauty contests--United States--Pictorial works, Cowboys--Pictorial works, Indian cowboys--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Pictorial works, and Rodeos--Pictorial works
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Photograph album of a rodeo in the American southwest.
