Informal carte-de-visite photographs probably created by James L. Cotter documenting Inuit people and dwellings probably in the vicinity of the eastern coast of Hudson Bay or Belcher Islands, Canada, ca. 1867-1870. Images documenting the traditional ...
Description:
James L. Cotter worked in various capacities from clerk to chief factor for the Hudson's Bay Company, 1857-1888.
Subject (Geographic):
Hudson Bay, Canada, and Hudson Bay.
Subject (Name):
Cotter, James L., 1839-1889. and Smith, R., photographer.
Subject (Topic):
Inuit, Clothing, Indian architecture, and Indians of North America
The papers consist of materials sent by Leslie Marmon Silko to Per Seyersted, a professor in the American Institute at Oslo University, Norway. Along with letters from Silko to Seyersted from 1974-1995 are drafts of writings by Silko, several photogra...
Description:
Leslie Marmon Silko (1948-), native American writer, author of Ceremony and Almanac of the Dead.
Subject (Name):
Seyersted, Per, 1921-2005., Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948-, and Lindberg-Seyersted, Brita
Subject (Topic):
American fiction, Indian authors, Indians in literature, Indians of North America, Mixed descent, and Novelists, American
Photograph album of images created by Eugene Buechel of Oglala Lakota and Sicangu Lakota people and environs in southern South Dakota, ca. 1928-1931
Description:
A Jesuit priest, Eugene Buechel (1874-1954) served as a superior at the mission schools of Holy Rosary Mission (1908-1916), Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and St. Francis Mission (1916-1923), Rosebud Indian Reservation, afterwards working to document ...
Subject (Geographic):
South Dakota., Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.), Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.), and South Dakota
Subject (Name):
Buechel, Eugene., Scherer, Peter, band director., Catholic Church, and Jesuits
Subject (Topic):
Missions, Brulé Indians, Cemeteries, Dakota Indians, Indians of North America, Rites and ceremonies, Mission schools, Oglala Indians, and Teton Indians
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
Portraits originally created by Frank Bennett Fiske, primarily of Lakota (Teton) Indians, ca. 1895-1930. Most of the images were created at his photographic studio at Fort Yates, North Dakota, and most of the Lakota people in the images lived on the ...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
North Dakota Heritage Society, Argentum Photographic Services)
Subject (Geographic):
North Dakota and Fort Yates (N.D.)
Subject (Name):
Black Bear, Chasing Bear, Mrs., Dunn family, Fiske, Frank Bennett, 1883-1952., Fiske, Frank Bennett, 1883-1952, Gray Hawk, Iron Star, Joe No Heart, Kicks Iron, Kicks the Iron, Loon, One Bull, Rain in the Face, approximately 1835-1905, Red Fish, Red Fox, Sharp Horn Bull, Stemmens, Red., Treetop, Jack, Mrs., Vyzralek, Frank., White Bear, Yellow Hawk, Argentum Photographic Services., North Dakota Heritage Foundation., State Historical Society of North Dakota. Collections., and United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency.
Subject (Topic):
Coyote, Golden eagle, Indians of North America, Indian women, Tipis, and Teton Indians
The two photographs include one portrait of Captain North and one group portrait of the last eight survivors of North's Company A Pawnee Indian scouts, taken circa 1929
Description:
Photographs are on postcard mounts and are accompanied by a letter regarding the Pawnee Indian Scouts of Company A and their captain.
Subject (Name):
North, Luther Hedden, 1846-1935.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Military scouts, and Pawnee Indians
Photographs of Neah Bay, Washington, and Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, created during the summer of 2010 and March 2011, that document the culture of Makah Indians and Haida Indians. The collection also...
Description:
Accompanied by descriptions of the images by the photographer (in box 1).
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska, British Columbia, Haida Gwaii (B.C.), Hydaburg (Alaska), Masset (B.C.), Neah Bay (Wash.), and Washington (State)
