Jicarilla Apache Reservation, N.M.
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Aspaas, Hans
- Aspaas, Ralph
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- Ralph Aspaas collection
- Extent
- 129 Photographs
- Date
- circa 1900-1910
- Archival Repository
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Identifier
- NMAI.AC.086, Series 1
- Type
- Archival materials
- Photographs
- Collection Citation
- Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Ralph Aspaas collection, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish or broadcast materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiarchives@si.edu.
- Scope and Contents
- This series contains 129 photographs (24 gelatin silver prints in a photograph album, 2 loose gelatin silver prints, 100 nitrate negatives, and 3 glass plate negatives) that were probably shot and compiled by Ralph Aspaas (1876-1939) while serving as a U. S. Allotting Agent for the Indian Service on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation in New Mexico from circa 1900-1910. The images may have also been shot by Ralph's brother Hans Aspaas (1873-1968). The bulk of the images were shot around Dulce (Jicarilla Apache Reservation capital). Among the photographs are depictions of daily life around the Jicarilla Apache community including informal portraits of individuals and families; Jicarilla Apache children dressed in traditional clothing and in school uniforms; dances and events at the Goijiya racetrack; buildings such as an Indian boarding school, student dormitories, houses, churches, and farm facilities; campsites with tents; transportation via horses, wagons, and trains; road construction via horses; landscapes around New Mexico; merchant Emmet Wirt (1868-1938) and his trading post on the reservation; Ralph Aspaas, his wife schoolteacher Allie Ward Aspaas (1881-1959), and possibly their children Ralph Ward Aspaas (1906-1972) and Carl Henry Aspaas (1908-1975); and Aspaas family's leisure time and tourism to Palace of the Governors (N.M.), among other unidentified sites. Many people are unidentified in the photographs.
- 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: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510200285-1503510200289-4
- Metadata Usage
- CC0