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Willis G. Tilton collection of photographs of Native Americans

National Museum of Natural History

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Object Details

sova.naa.photolot.89-8
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3754be8a9-31b2-4b22-9fbb-dc5b7dadb75f
Local Call Number(s)
NAA Photo Lot 89-8, NAA Photo Lot 135
Collector
Tilton, Willis G.
Names
Field Museum of Natural History
Big Foot, -1890
Photographer
Dorsey, George A. (George Amos), 1868-1931
Names
Geronimo, 1829-1909
Photographer
Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917
Hall, E. E.
James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Maude, F. H. (Frederic Hamer)
Nelson, Edward William, 1855-1934
Thompson, J. Eric S. (John Eric Sidney), 1898-1975
Voth, H. R. (Henry R.), 1855-1931
Winternitz, Ludwig (Louis)
Addl. KW Subj
Alaskan Eskimo Assiniboin; Assiniboine Blackfoot Flathead Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw) Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox Mishongnavi Oraibi Sauk & Fox Shoshone Sioux
Place
Belize
Fort Belknap Indian Reservation (Mont.)
Oraibi (Ariz.)
Topic
Indians of North America -- Northeast
Indians of North America -- Southern states
Rites and ceremonies
Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890
Sun Dance
Collector
Tilton, Willis G.
Culture
Pueblo
Sioux
Inunaina (Arapaho)
Apache
Sicangu Lakota (Brulé Sioux)
Assiniboine (Stoney)
Jicarilla Apache
Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
Kootenai (Kutenai)
Kickapoo
Diné (Navajo)
Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)
Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux)
Ponca
Indians of North America -- Great Plains
Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan)
Potawatomi
Northwest Coast
Sauk
Seminole
Shoshone
Taos Indians
Iroquois
Umatilla
White Mountain Apache
Wichita
Arctic peoples
Hopi Pueblo
Indians of North America -- Great Basin
Mayas
Patagonia
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Fox
Eskimos
Haida
A'aninin (Gros Ventre)
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux)
Chiricahua Apache
Niuam (Comanche)
Coast Salish
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
Indians of North America -- Subarctic
Indians of North America -- Plateau
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Willis G. Tilton collection of photographs of Native Americans
Biographical/Historical note
Willis G. Tilton was a dealer and owner of the store, Tilton Indian Relics, in Topeka, Kansas.
Extent
685 Negatives (photographic) (circa, glass and nitrate)
Date
circa 1880-1930
bulk 1899-1904
Custodial History note
The Bureau of American Ethnology purchased these photographs from dealer Willis G. Tilton in 1962.
Archival Repository
National Anthropological Archives
Identifier
NAA.PhotoLot.89-8
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Negatives (photographic)
Citation
Photo Lot 89-8, Willis G. Tilton collection of photographs of Native Americans, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Rights
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Existence and Location of Copies note
Most of the photographs have been digitized and digital surrogates are available online. Copy prints are available with the collection.
Bibliography
Photographs published in George A. Dorsey, "The Arapaho Sun Dance: the Ceremony of the Offerings Lodge," Field Columbian Museum Publication 75, Anthropological Series, vol. 4, 1903; Dorsey, "The Cheyenne: the Sun Dance," Field Columbian Museum Publication 103, Anthropological Series, vol. 4, no. 2, 1905; Dorsey and H. R. Voth, "The Oraibi Soyal Ceremony," Field Columbian Museum Publication 55, Anthropological Series, vol. 3, no. 1, 1901; Dorsey and Voth, "The Mishongnovi Ceremonies of the Snake and Antelope Fraternities, Field Columbian Museum Publication 66, Anthropological Series, vol. 3, no. 3, 1902; Voth, "The Oraibi Summer Snake Ceremony," Field Columbian Museum Publication 83, Anthropological Series, vol. 3, no. 4, 1903; Voth, "The Oraibi Oaqol Ceremony," Field Columbian Museum Publication 84, Anthropological Series, vol. 6, no. 1, 1903; Dorsey, "The Ponca Sun Dance," Field Columbian Museum Publication 102, Anthropological Series, vol. 7, no. 2, 1905; Voth, "The Oraibi Marau Ceremony," Field Columbian Museum Publication 156, Anthropological Series, vol. 11, no. 1, 1912; J. Eric Thompson, "Ethnology of the Mayas of Southern and Central British Honduras," Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago) Publication 274, Anthropological Series, vol. 17, no. 2, 1930; Thompson, "Archeological Investigations of the SOuthern Cayo District, British Honduras," Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago) Publication 301, Anthropological Series, vol. 17, no. 3, 1931; Thompson, "The Civilization of the Mayas," Chicago Field Museum, Anthropological Leaflet, no. 25, 1927; Edward William Nelson, "The Eskimo about Bering Strait," 18th BAE Annual Report, 1900; John Murdoch, "Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition," 9th BAE Annual Report, 1892.
Other Finding Aids note
Inventory available in repository.
Scope and Contents note
Photographs collected by Willis G. Tilton, a dealer in artifacts and photographs relating to Native Americans. Many of the photographs were made by Field Columbian Museum photographer Charles Carpenter at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904; many others were created by various photographers for Field Museum publications. Notable subjects include Big Foot, dead in the snow at the Wounded Knee battlefield; Arapaho and Cheyenne social dances; Hopi ceremonies; a reenactment of the shooting of Sitting Bull; Sun Dances (Arapaho, Assiniboin, Gros Ventre, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Ponca); and views of the United States Indian School Building and Pawnee people at the the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri. Other photographs include portraits and images of artifacts, basket weaving, cradles, dress, dwelling, tipis and other dwellings, and tree burials. There are also some photographs of Henry Field's expedition to Iraq in 1934 (Field museum anthropological expedition to the Near East), work elephants in Burma, Pipestone Quarry in Minnesota, a church in the Yucatan, and a rickshaw and cart in Ceylon.
Restrictions
The collection is open for research. Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Location of Other Archival Materials
Photographs in the Tilton Collection, previously filed in Photo Lot 135, have been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 89-8. These photographs were also purchased by the Bureau of American Ethnology from Willis G. Tilton and form part of this collection.
Associated photographs still held in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.
Most photographs included in the card catalog of copy negatives and in the reference file prints by tribe.
Additional photographs by Dorsey held in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4721 and Photo Lot 24.
Correspondence from Dorsey held in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4821, records of the Bureau of American Ethnology, the J.C. Pilling Papers, and the Ales Hrdlicka Papers.
Additional photographs by Nelson held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 171, Photo Lot 133, Photo Lot 24, and the BAE historical negatives.
Additional Maude photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 90-1 and Photo Lot 24.
Additional E. E. Hall photographs held in National Anthropological Archives MS 4978 and Photo Lot 24.
The Smithsonian Institution Archives holds Nelson's field reports (SIA Acc. 97-123) and the Edward William Nelson and Edward Alphonso Goldman Collection (SIA RU007364).
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Willis G. Tilton photograph collection of American Indians, circa 1880-1930 (bulk 1899-1904)
NAA.PhotoLot.89-8
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3754be8a9-31b2-4b22-9fbb-dc5b7dadb75f
NAA.PhotoLot.89-8
NAA
Record ID
ebl-1503512935082-1503512935085-0

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  • Cheyenne and Arapaho Social Dance

  • Chief To-Fo-Ya (profile)

  • Niehhinitu (?) in dance costume

  • California Indian house

  • Dakota Rosebud Reservation man, Singing Goose, U. S. Indian School, St Louis, Missouri

  • Indians in front of elevated homes

  • Bryant, a half-breed Osage and Osage Indian maiden wearing beautiful shawl

  • Mrs Hollow Horn Bear, Brule tribe. U. S. Indian School, St Louis, Missouri

  • Pawnee man and woman, keepers of the skull bundle

  • Seminole Indian and child, 1920, Florida

  • Pawnee family group

  • Wichita Indian grass hut. Oklahoma. Hut exhibited at World's Fair, St Louis, Missouri. U. S. Indian School

  • Dakota woman, Mrs Lost Horse. U. S. Indian School, St Louis, Missouri

  • Cheyenne and Arapaho Social Dance

  • Side view of Indian girl

  • Dakota Rosebud man, Tall Crane, U. S. Indian School, St Louis, Missouri

  • Seminole Indian camp, 1920, Florida

  • "Greenland Eskimo"

  • "Cheyenne and Arapaho Social Dance"

  • Group of Salish Indians on river bank

  • Front view of Chief Bull Bear. Oklahoma. U.S. Indian school

  • "Sun dance priests awaiting return of Dog-soldiers"

  • Mrs Murie, wife of James Murie, Coming Sun, chief of the Skidi Pawnee

  • Dakota man, Adolph Knock and family. U. S. Indian School, St Louis, Missouri


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