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G. Gage Skinner collection

National Museum of the American Indian

Object Details

Photographer
Skinner, G. Gage
Place
Santa Marta Range (Colombia)
Chile
Colombia
Topic
Peace Corps (U.S.)
Indians of South America -- Chile
Indians of South America -- Colombia
Provenance
This collection was donated by G. Gage Skinner in 2017 and 2018.
Photographer
Skinner, G. Gage
Culture
Ika (Ica/Arhuaco)
Kogi (Kagaba)
Mapuche
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G. Gage Skinner collection
Summary
This collection consists of 265 photographic slides and 1 audio cassette recording made by former Peace Corps volunteer G. Gage Skinner while living and traveling in Chile and Colombia in the 1960s-1970s. Images include portraits, landscapes, ceremonies, and daily village life. Audio recording includes songs, chants, and musical instruments.
Biographical / Historical
G. Gage Skinner is a former Peace Corps volunteer, having served in Chile, 1964-1966, and later in Colombia, 1969-1972. A student of cultural anthropology and a graduate of San Diego State University, Skinner has taught at the college level, and has published on a wide range of topics, including beekeeping, the fur trade, and the history of the American West.
Extent
.25 Linear feet
265 Slides (photographs)
1 Sound cassette
Date
1964-1966
1972
Archival Repository
National Museum of the American Indian
Identifier
NMAI.AC.116
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Slides (photographs)
Sound cassettes
Audiocassettes
Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); G. Gage Skinner collection, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in two series. Series 1: Chile, 1964-1966 and Series 2: Colombia, 1972.
Processing Information
Processed by Nathan Sowry, Reference Archivist, in 2018.
Rights
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.
Genre/Form
Slides (photographs)
Audiocassettes
Scope and Contents
The G. Gage Skinner collection consists of 265 photographic slides and 1 audio cassette recording made by former Peace Corps volunteer G. Gage Skinner while living and traveling in Chile and Colombia in the 1960s-1970s. Series 1: Chile, 1964-1966, includes images of individual portraits, landscapes, ceremonies, and daily village life of the Mapuche peoples of what is now the Araucanía Region of Chile. Also part of Series 1 is an audio recording of songs, chants, and musical instruments from a 1965 Nguillatún fertility ceremony near Lumaco, Chile. Series 2: Colombia, 1972, includes images of landscapes and daily village life of the Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) and Kogi (Kagaba) peoples of the area near Donachui in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range of Colombia. Images include a particular focus on Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) dwellings and architecture, weaving, trade goods, and agriculture.
Restrictions
Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
Related Materials
The Peace Corps Community Archives at American University in Washington, DC maintains a collection of manuscript materials donated by G. Gage Skinner documenting his Peace Corps service in Chile and Colombia. These materials include diaries, biographical information, training materials, and publications. In addition to material culture objects in the NMAI Object Collections donated by Skinner, there are also a large number of objects documenting Mapuche culture which he donated to the San Diego Museum of Man's ethnographic collections.
Separated Materials
G. Gage Skinner also donated a number of material culture objects to the NMAI Object Collections, documenting the Mapuche, Ika (Ica/Arhuaco), and Kamsá (Sebondoy) peoples of Chile and Colombia. The object numbers are 27/0087 - 27/0089 and 27/0102 - 27/0108.
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1527087605153-1527087605182-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv47fd8ff0c-b133-438a-9a96-0bf38fd0b978

In the Collection

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  • Aerial view of Andean volcanoes

  • Mapuche woman's hair ornaments

  • Landscape view of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

  • Mapuche men heating drum head

  • Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) woman preparing yarn

  • Landscape view of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

  • Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) hand-carved, stepped ladder

  • Animal skull in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

  • Llaima volcano in summer

  • Aerial view of Llaima volcano

  • Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) man with accordion and family

  • Landscape view of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

  • Landscape view of Quetrahue Reservation

  • Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) man with accordion and family

  • Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) man and woman

  • Peace Corps beekeeping project

  • Nguillatún harvest ceremony at night

  • Peace Corps beekeeping project

  • Aerial view of Llaima volcano

  • Mapuche couple on horseback with baby

  • Mapuche woman's hair ornaments

  • Feasting and socializing at Nguillatún

  • Man making cloth on loom

  • Nguillatún harvest ceremony

  • Mapuche woman's hair ornaments

  • Young Mapuche woman in traditional dress

  • Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) woman with infant

  • Post Office and General Store outside Temuco

  • Mapuche man and oxen-cart

  • Mapuche woman's hair ornaments

  • Path in front of Donachui dwelling

  • Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) women and children

  • Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) family drying yucca fibers

  • Landscape view of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

  • Village of Donachui

  • Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) family drying yucca fibers

  • Peace Corps beekeeping project

  • Landscape view of Quetrahue Reservation

  • Village of Donachui

  • Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) woman with baby carrier

  • Village of Donachui

  • Coffee beans drying

  • Tavern in Lumaco

  • Landscape view of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

  • Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) woman and child

  • Feasting and socializing at Nguillatún

  • Mapuche woman weaving

  • Eva Reiman Chumay with loom

  • Peace Corps beekeeping project

  • Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) woman washing clothes

  • Nguillatún hilltop

  • Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) women with children

  • Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) dwellings

  • Mapuche couple on horseback with baby

  • Dwelling in Atanquez

  • Mapuche woman weaving

  • Aerial view of Andean volcanoes

  • Mapuche woman weaving

  • Mapuche men playing chueca

  • Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) trader and mule

  • Mapuche weaving

  • Feasting and socializing at Nguillatún

  • Kogi (Kagaba) dwelling

  • City of Santiago

  • Village of Atanquez

  • Chilean cowboy

  • Mountain climbing party

  • Map of Colombia

  • Fique fiber drying

  • Mapuche woman's hair ornaments

  • Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) woman shelling peas

  • Landscape view of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

  • Landscape view of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

  • Unpaved road near Traiguén

  • Nguillatún harvest ceremony

  • Edgar Blackburn's ranch

  • Landscape view of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

  • Landscape view of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

  • Kogi (Kagaba) dwellings and gardens

  • Dirt road leading toward mountains

  • First base camp of mountain climbing party

  • Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) traders

  • Wooden door in Donachui dwelling

  • Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) bridge

  • Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) dwelling

  • Kogi (Kagaba) dwelling

  • Mapuche mother and daughter

  • Stepped pole and rock steps in Donachui

  • Village of Donachui

  • Nguillatún harvest ceremony at night

  • Village of Donachui

  • Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) family

  • Chilean traders

  • Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) woman making a bag

  • Chilean woman in kitchen

  • Ricardo Antileo and family

  • Aerial view of Llaima volcano

  • Peace Corps beekeeping project

  • Mapuche men playing chueca

  • Ika (Ica/Arhuaco) woman making a bag

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Aerial view of Andean volcanoes
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