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Nevada, Utah and Colorado

National Museum of the American Indian

Object Details

sova.nmai.ac.034_ref541
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv4585be1f7-ab5b-431d-bfc3-86944fcfbfcb
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
1972
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, Arizona, Colorado and Utah between April and September of 1972. This includes slides, negatives and photographic prints in both black and white and color. The Carters went on their first exploration of Lagomarsino, Nevada in April 1972. This was followed by a 19 day trip in May where they visited 17 petroglyph sites in Nevada, Arizona and Colorado including Upper Hickison, Lower Hickison, Circleville, Sevier River, Upper Pleasant Creek, Pleasant Creek Canyon, Capitol Reef Pass, Old Woman Wash, Temple Mountain, Buckhorn Canyon, Sego Canyon, Courthouse Wash, Colorado River Canyon, Newspaper Rock, and Colorado National Monument. They returned to Nevada in September visiting and recording in both Fallon in the Dead Camel Range and Lagomarsino.
For descriptions of Lagomarsino, NV, see Documents 19-20 (Box 2, Folder 1) and Document 69 (Box 2, Folder 6). For descriptions of the 17 sites in Arizona, Colorado and Utah see Document 17 (Box 2, Folder 1) and Documents 51-68 (Box 2, Folder 6). For descriptions of the Dead Camel Range in Fallon, NV see Document 10 (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_ref541
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv4585be1f7-ab5b-431d-bfc3-86944fcfbfcb
NMAI.AC.034
NMAIA
Record ID
ebl-1553605808805-1553605809280-0

  • Ernest S. and Eloise Carter Collection


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