United Sates: Delaware, Nanticoke
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Johnson, Frederick, 1904-1994
- Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
- Culture
- Rappahannock
- Nanticoke
- Mohegan
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- Frederick Johnson photograph collection
- Extent
- 41 Negatives (photographic)
- Date
- 1924-1927
- Archival Repository
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Identifier
- NMAI.AC.001.038, Series 1
- Type
- Archival materials
- Negatives (photographic)
- Collection Citation
- Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Frederick Johnson photograph collection, Photo Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited users to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not changed, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. Some images restricted: Cultural Sensitivity
- Scope and Contents
- The negatives in this series were taken among the Nanticoke tribe in Millsboro, Delaware between 1924-1927, while Johnson was an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania studying under Frank Speck. Images of Nanticoke tribal members include Chief Russell R. Clark and his family; members of the Harmon and Wright families; Iona Hamilton; and Dorelix Amaf. During his trips to Millsboro, Johnson also photographed visits to the Nanticoke from Rappahannock tribal members from Virginia including Chief George Nelson among others. The 1927 Rappahannock visit also coincided with a Thanksgiving dance and powwow. Gladys Tantaquidgeon (Mohegan), another student of Speck at the University of Pennsylvania, was also photographed by Johnson in Delaware. Though the majority of photographs are portraits, Johnson also photographed baskets and scenic views. Many of the Nanticoke tribal members were identified by Bill Davis from the Nanticoke Indian Museum in 2003.
- N14726-N14766
- Collection Restrictions
- Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
- Record ID
- ebl-1517511604395-1517511604427-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0