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William M. Pennington photographs of Navajo people

Natural History Museum

Portrait of Mussa-Chiba-Lo (Diné/Navajo)
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Object Details

sova.naa.photolot.82-2
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3e4114e2d-c379-4f42-9c5d-a3544c8282ff
Photographer
Pennington, William M.
Names
Updike, Lisle, 1890-1970 (possible photographer)
Photographer
Pennington, William M.
Culture
Diné (Navajo)
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
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William M. Pennington photographs of Navajo people
Biographical/Historical note
From 1908-1911, William M. Pennington and Lisle Updike operated the Pen-Dike Studio in Durango, Colorado. Pennington's main focus was studio portraiture while Updike took mostly landscape photographs. In 1911, Pennington bought out Updike's share in the studio and renamed it the Pennington Studio. Pennington and Updike worked together again in the early 1920s photographing the Navajo community in and around Shiprock, New Mexico; the photographs in this collection are probably from that assignment.
Extent
11 Platinum prints
Date
circa 1915-1925
Custodial History note
Donated by Marj Ulsamer in 1981.
Archival Repository
National Anthropological Archives
Identifier
NAA.PhotoLot.82-2
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Platinum prints
Photographs
Citation
Photo lot 82-2, William M. Pennington photographs of Navajo people, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Rights
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Existence and Location of Copies note
Digital surrogate is available online.
Bibliography
Photographs published in H. Jackson Clark, Glass plates & wagon ruts: images of the Southwest by Lisle Updike and William Pennington, Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1998.
Genre/Form
Photographs
Scope and Contents note
The collection comprises mostly portraits of Diné/Navajo individuals as well as several photographs of people with horses. A list of identifications accompanies the photographs.
Restrictions
The collection is open for research. Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Location of Other Archival Materials
Additional Pennington photographs can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 59.
NAA.PhotoLot.82-2
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3e4114e2d-c379-4f42-9c5d-a3544c8282ff
NAA.PhotoLot.82-2
NAA
Record ID
ebl-1503513358901-1503513358912-0

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