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Tohono O'odham (Papago) Reservation, Ariz.

National Museum of the American Indian

Object Details

Collection Creator
Aspaas, Hans
Aspaas, Ralph
See more items in
Ralph Aspaas collection
Extent
47 Nitrate negatives
Date
circa 1912-1915
Container
Box 3 (Nitrate film negatives: N47277 - N47321, N47355, N47363)
Archival Repository
National Museum of the American Indian
Identifier
NMAI.AC.086, Series 2
Type
Archival materials
Negatives
Nitrate negatives
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 47 nitrate negatives that were shot by Ralph Aspaas (1876-1939), while serving as a U.S. Allotting Agent for the Indian Service on the Tohono O'odham (Papago) Reservation in Arizona circa 1912-1915. The bulk of the images in this series were shot in the reservation's capital of Sells (formerly known as Indian Oasis), AZ. The images may have also been shot by Ralph's brother Hans Aspaas (1873-1968). The images depict the Tohono O'odham (Papago) community; Tohono O'odham pottery and baskets for sale at a market; agricultural equipment and livestock including cattle; transportation via automobile, horses, mules; activities including harvesting cactus fruit; various unidentified buildings, tents, and facilities on the reservation; landscapes around Arizona; Ralph Aspaas, his wife Allie Ward Aspaas (1881-1959), and their children including Ralph Ward Aspaas (1906-1972), Carl Henry Aspaas (1908-1975), and possibly Max Herndon Aspaas (1911-1971) and Ella Annetta Aspaas (b. 1913); and the Aspaas family's leisure time including tourism to unidentified sites in Arizona; Photographs of note include an image of Ralph Aspaas working at a table outdoors with a group of Tohono O'odham men. This image is possibly depicting the land allotment process.
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).
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1503510200285-1503510200290-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv4a4ffd864-e588-4bba-a8b5-23f60224e062

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