John Fortenberry expedition photographs from Venezuela
Object Details
- Creator
- Fortenberry, John
- Place
- Orinoco River Region (Venezuela and Colombia)
- Venezuela
- Topic
- Expeditions
- Provenance
- Gift of John Fortenberry, 1986.
- Creator
- Fortenberry, John
- Culture
- Yanomami (Yanoama)
- Piaroa
- Ye'kuana (Makiritare/Mayagone)
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- Summary
- This collection includes 17 photographic color prints made by John Fortenberry on a 1985 expedition with Canadian psychologists to the Amazonas region and Orinoco river in Venezuela. Photographs were made among the Yanomami (Yanoama) community, and possibly among the Piaroa and Ye'kuana (Makiritare/Mayagone) communities as well.
- Biographical / Historical
- Born in Jackson, Mississippi, John Fortenberry graduated from the University of Mississippi in Film/Television. Right out of school, he went to work at Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video, serving as an editor for eight years before becoming a producer/director. Fortenberry joined a 1985 expedition to the Amazonas region in Venezuela accompanying Robert Monnier, Leonard Langman, Pepe Hymas and a group of eight or nine Canadian psychologists.
- Extent
- 17 Photographic prints (color)
- Date
- 1985
- Archival Repository
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Identifier
- NMAI.AC.342
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Photographic prints
- Citation
- Identification of specific item; 1985; John Fortenberry expedition photographs from Venezuela, image #, NMAI.AC.342; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
- Arrangement
- Arranged by catalog number in three folders.
- Processing Information
- Processed by Rachel Menyuk, Processing Archivist, 2022.
- Rights
- Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Please submit a written request to [email protected]. 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
- Photographic prints
- Scope and Contents
- This collection includes 17 photographic color prints made by John Fortenberry in October of 1985. The photographs include images made in several villages along the Orinoco river in the Amazonas region of Venezuela. The snapshots include portraits of Yanomami (Yanoama) community members and leaders, views of yucca processing and a banana plantation, as well as scenic views on the Orinoco river. There are also several photographs that include members of the expedition team including Leonard Langman and Pepe Hymas, the Assistant to the Medical Administrator to the Amazonas Region. Additional descriptions of the photographs were provided by Fortenberry with the donation of the collection in 1986.
- Catalog numbers include P25943-P25959.
- Restrictions
- Access to NMAI Archives 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: [email protected]).
- Record ID
- ebl-1662487200930-1662487201053-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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