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Carlos Montezuma lantern slide collection relating to Native Americans

National Museum of Natural History

Object Details

Local Call Number(s)
NAA Photo Lot 73
Varying Form of Title
Carlos Montezuma-Doris Collester Collection of Lantern Slides
General note
The handwriting on the slides has been identified as that of Dr. Carlos Montezuma by John Larner, the editor of Montezumaʹs papers. Information in this catalog record has been taken from Cesare Marino, Solving the Mystery: The Carlos Montezuma-Doris Collester Collection of Lantern Slides in the NAA : Report of Background Research and Interview with Mrs. Doris Collester, Donor of the Carlos Montezuma Collection of Hand-tinted Lantern Slides to the Smithsonian Institution, conducted in Williamstown, West Virginia, August 2013.
Creator
Montezuma, Carlos, 1866-1923
Names
Phoenix Indian School
United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)
Photographer
Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896
Choate, J. N. (John N.), 1848-1902
Gentile, Carlo, 1835-1893
Prando, Peter Paul Father
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896
Addl. KW Subj
Navaho Shoshone Sioux Papago (Tohono O'odham)
Place
Montezuma Castle National Monument (Ariz.)
Casa Grande (Ariz.)
Topic
Dwellings
Creator
Montezuma, Carlos, 1866-1923
Culture
Sioux
Indians of North America -- Great Basin
Apache
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Piipaash (Maricopa)
Paiute
Shoshone
Ute
Yavapai
Tohono O'odham (Papago)
Mojave (Mohave)
Indians of North America -- Great Plains
Diné (Navajo)
Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
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Carlos Montezuma lantern slide collection relating to Native Americans
Biographical/Historical note
Carlos Montezuma (1866-1923, also called Wassaja) was an Native American activist and physician. He was Yavapai, though he often identified himself as Apache. He was captured by Pima Indians at a young age and sold in 1871 to Italian-immigrant and pioneer photographer Carlo (or Charles) Gentile, who adopted the child and took him to New York. Montezuma graduated from the University of Illinois (1884) and received his MD from the Chicago Medical College (1889). He developed a friendship with Richard Henry Pratt, head of the Carlisle Indian School, and took a post as reservation physician for the Bureau of Indian Services. During this time he developed an opposition to BIA policies and became an Native American advocate, speaking out against reservations. He gave numerous lectures on Native Americans at institutions around the United States, helped organize the Society of American Indians, and published a personal newsletter entitled Wassaja (1916-1922). In 1896, Montezuma established a medical practice in Chicago. He died in Arizona in 1923.
Extent
171 Lantern slides
Date
circa 1871-1913
Custodial History note
The lantern slides were given by Montezuma's widow, Marie Keller Montezuma (later Moore) and her second husband, Bill Moore to Robert Collester, circa 1940s. They were donated to the Smithsonian by Doris Collester, circa 1961.
Archival Repository
National Anthropological Archives
Identifier
NAA.PhotoLot.73
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Lantern slides
Citation
Photo lot 73, Carlos Montezuma lantern slide collection relating to Native Americans, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Rights
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Existence and Location of Copies note
Copy negatives and copy prints for some images, made by the Smithsonian, are available with the collection.
Other Finding Aids note
Inventory and part of Cesare Marino's report on the collection are available in repository.
Scope and Contents note
The collection includes hand-colored glass lantern slides collected by Dr. Carlos Montezuma and used for his lectures on Native American rights. Many of the photographs are portraits, some made at Ft. McDowell and Fort Apache. Other images show schools, reservations, dwellings, Charles Dickens (a Yavapai store owner), Montezuma's Castle, Casa Grande, and scenic views. A special series includes photographs made during a 1913 hunting and sightseeing trip that he organized, probably including photographs made by Montezuma's guests, John T. McCutcheon and Charles B. Gibson. Some of the images were made by Charles (Carlos) Gentile, the photographer and benefactor of Montezuma in his early years. There are also several by Father Peter Paulus Prando and John N. Choate, and one portrait each by Napoleon Sarony and Matthew Brady. Otherwise, the photographers are unidentified.
Restrictions
The collection is open for research. Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Location of Other Archival Materials
Correspondence from Montezuma is held in the National Anthropological Archives in the records of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Carlos Montezuma's papers are held in the Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections; Arizona State University Libraries, Charles Trumbull Hayden Library; and University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections.
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1503512923816-1503512923819-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3833332fe-2d8c-480f-be32-a225784cc00d

In the Collection

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  • Young Men Near Men's Housing Quarters

  • Portrait (Front) of Chief in Military Uniform

  • Portrait (Front) of Woman

  • Portrait (Front) of Woman with Face Paint and in Partrait Native Dress with Ornaments

  • Group Portrait of Two Young Men and Young Women

  • John McCutcheon Arranging Deer Horns on Sign Which Is on Awning of Charles Dickens' Wood Frame Store; Three Men Helping and One Male Spectator

  • Group Portrait of Co-Wow-Se-Puchia (Girl), Wassaja (Beckoning) or Carlos Montezuma, and Ho-Lac-Ca (girl), Taken Two Weeks After Capture

  • Two Men Placing Sign on Awning of Charles Dickens' Wood Frame Store; Three Men Nearby

  • Portrait (Front) of Chief Juan Chivaria in Partial Native Dress

  • Portrait (Front) of Young Man

  • Woman Near Earth Lodge; Tipis and Tents in Background

  • Portrait (Front) of Girl in Native Dress with Ornaments

  • Group in Partial Native Dress, All on Horseback; Tipi In Background

  • Portrait (Front) of Man in Partial Native Dress

  • View of Three Men in Desert

  • Two Men on Mounds of Earth

  • View of Canyon

  • Portrait (Front) of Young Man with Face Paint and in Partial Native Dress

  • Girl Near Camp, Horse with Travois and Other Horses Nearby

  • View of Rock Formation

  • View of Adobe House Where Wassaja (Beckoning) or Dr Carlos Montezuma, Was Sold; Two Men ? Near House, Abandoned Adobe House Cluster in Background

  • Portrait (Front) of Wassaja (Beckoning) or Dr Carlos Montezuma, in Costume and Holding Bow

  • View of Ruins

  • Portrait of Young Woman and Girl, Both in Partial Native Dress

  • Group Portrait of Seven People

  • Facade of Pueblo Church San Xavier Del Bac

  • Group of People and Horse Near Casa Grande

  • Deer Near Barbed Wire Fence

  • Thirty-Six Girls, One Women and Girl (Both Non-Native) on Steps of Wood Frame Building

  • Man and Woman Drinking from Bank of River

  • Three Men in Dance Costume ? Near Tipis; Woman Holding Child And Saddle Nearby

  • Family Group of Four, All in Partial Native Dress with Ornaments

  • Group of People and Horse Near Casa Grande; One Man Climbing on Wall

  • George Washington and his Family of Eight, One in Partial Native Dress, One with Ornaments; Wood Frame House in Background

  • Two Women in Native Dress Carrying Household Items in Baskets On Heads

  • Group of People in Captain Jim's Camp of Brush Shelter and Arbor

  • Santiago, Playmate of Wassaja (Beckoning)or Dr Carlos Montezuma

  • View of Adobe House Where Wassaja (Beckoning) or Dr Carlos Montezuma, Was Sold; Two Men ? in Forefront

  • Group of Twelve Men, Prisoners and Followers of Geronimo, One In Blanket

  • Cross Marking Where General George Custer Died; Four Markers Nearby

  • Open-Walled Wood Frame House Over Casa Grande, Erected by Government for Protecting; Remans of House Structure in Foreground

  • Chief Antonio Azul Leaning on Picket Fence; Stucco House In Background

  • Portrait of Two Young Women, Both in Native Dress With Ornaments

  • Portrait of Two Young Men

  • Portrait (Profile) of Young Man in Partial Native Dress With Face Paint and Holding Bugle

  • Group Portrait of Two Women and One Man Holding Basket; One Woman with Ornaments

  • Girl in Partial Native Dress; Wood Frame Buildings and Hills In Background

  • Portrait (Front) of Man in Partial Native Dress with Face Paint

  • Group Portrait of Twenty-Eight Children in Classroom; Man And Woman ? (Non-Native) Nearby

  • Ten Men; Eight Holding Rifles

  • John McCutcheon Painting Sign for Charles Dickens' Store; Three Men Nearby

  • Family Group of Five Under Awning of Adobe Officer's House

  • Portrait ? (Front) of White Buffalo or Buffalo White Hair

  • Portrait (Profile) of Man Reported to Be Dr Carlos Montezuma's Captor, in Partial Native Dress

  • Six Men and Six Horses Resting Near River

  • Portrait (Front) of Wassaja (Beckoning) or Dr Montezuma

  • Group Portrait of Eight Young Men and Three Young Women, All In School Uniform

  • Portrait (Front) of Man

  • Group of Seven People Under Tent

  • Group Portrait of Three Girls and Five Boys

  • Camp of Chief George Dickens Showing Three Canvas and Grass Covered Lodges and Brush Arbor; Horse and Wagon Nearby

  • View of Mountain Side

  • Six Men and Six Horses Near Hill; on Way to Bloody Cave ?

  • Portrait (Front) of Girl in Native Dress with Ornaments

  • Portrait (Front) of Geronimo or Gokhlayeh (One Who Yawns) In Costume

  • Eleven Young Men Near Wood Frame Building, Wassaja (Beckoning) or Dr Carlos Montezuma Identified

  • Portrait (Front) of Young Man in Partial Native Dress

  • Portrait (Front) of Women with Face Paint and Ornament

  • Four Men in Cave Mouth Where U S Soldiers Massacred 180 Natives; Human Bones in Foreground

  • Four Men in Cave Mouth Where U S Soldiers Massacred 180 Natives; Human Bones in Foreground

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