Object Details
sova.nmai.ac.034_ref540
- Collection Creator
- Carter, Ernest S.
- Carter, Eloise
- See more items in
- Ernest S. and Eloise Carter Collection
- Ernest S. and Eloise Carter Collection / Series 1: Photographs / 1.2: United States Southwest: Landscapes and Petroglyphs
- Date
- 1971
- 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 slides, negatives and photographic prints taken during various trips made by the Carters to examine and photograph petroglyphs in northwestern Nevada and Arizona between February and November of 1971. This includes slides, negatives and photographic prints in both black and white and color. The Carters began in February in Verdi proceeding on to Pyramid Lake. In March they photographed petroglyph sites on the Paiute Reservation as well as sites on the Southern end of Dry Winnemucca Lake including Paul Bunyan's Corral They returned to Pyramid Lake in April also recording the Grimes Site near Fallon. In May they continued on to Monument Valley and Mystery Valley in Arizona. The Carters we The Carters returned to Winnemucca Lake and the Pyramid Lake areas between November and December of 1971.
- For descriptions of the various northwestern Nevada sites (Pyramid Lake, Winnemucca Lake, Verdi, Grimes Site, Paul Bunyan's Corral) See Documents 42-50, 83, 87 (Box 2, Folder 6) and Documents 6, 8 (Box 2, Folder 1). For descriptions of Monument and Mystery Valley sites in Arizona see Document 9 (Box 2, Folder 1).
- 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_ref540
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- Record ID
- ebl-1553605808805-1553605809089-1