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National Museum of the American Indian

Object Details

sova.nmai.ac.034_ref537
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv42a7f016c-8567-4b73-bf5d-fa0158e18a67
Collection Creator
Carter, Ernest S.
Carter, Eloise
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Ernest S. and Eloise Carter Collection
Ernest S. and Eloise Carter Collection / Series 1: Photographs / 1.2: United States Southwest: Landscapes and Petroglyphs
Date
1965 April-1966 May
Archival Repository
National Museum of the American Indian
Type
Archival materials
Collection Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Ernest S. and Eloise Carter collection, Item 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 [email protected]. 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.
Scope and Contents
This subseries includes photographs taken during various different trips made by the Carters to examine and photograph petroglyphs in California and Nevada between April and July of 1965. This includes slides, negatives and photographic prints in both black and white and color. The first trip made in April of 1965 was first to four petroglyph sites about 20 miles north of Bishop, California which included Chalfant, Red Canyon, Newspaper Rock and Fish Slough. The Carters then continued on in May to Volcano, California, Death Valley and Smoke Creek Canyon. It should be noted that May of 1965 was their first use of color photography. There was an attempt to visit Titus Canyon, but it was closed to visitors. In July 1965, the Carters visited the Valley of Fire petroglyphs in Nevada. There was a break until October-November when the Carters visited Dark Canyon, California. Between April 1966 and May 1966 the Carters revisited sites from the previous year including Dark Canyon, Chalfont, Death Valley and Titus Canyon.
Descriptions of the Red Canyon (Bishop), Chalfant (Bishop), and Titus Canyon (Death Valley) petroglyphs can be found in Document 29 (Box 2, Folder 3). Notes on Volcano, California petroglyphs can be found in Documents 103, 105 (Box 2, Folder 7). Notes on Smoke Creek Canyon can be found in Documents 105, 111 (Box 2, Folder 7). Notes on Valley of Fire petroglyphs can be found in Documents 104, 108 (Box 2, Folder 7). Notes on Dark Canyon can be found in Document 112 (Box 2, Folder 7).
Collection Restrictions
Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Thursday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: [email protected]).
NMAI.AC.034_ref537
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv42a7f016c-8567-4b73-bf5d-fa0158e18a67
NMAI.AC.034
NMAIA
Record ID
ebl-1553605808805-1553605809066-1

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