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John Fortenberry expedition photographs from Venezuela

National Museum of the American Indian

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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John Fortenberry expedition photographs from Venezuela
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]).
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1662487200930-1662487201053-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv42f47371a-ca56-4cf3-80ed-d961267175fc

In the Collection

  • Blue-and-yellow macaw

  • Río Orinoco

  • Yanomami (Yanoama) man in dugout canoe

  • Yucca processing

  • Young Yanomami (Yanoama) boy

  • Young Yanomami (Yanoama) girl

  • Portrait of Antonio and his family

  • Yanomami (Yanoama) Chieftan posed in his house

  • Pepe Hymas and Leonard Langman

  • Río Orinoco

  • Yanomami (Yanoama) men with blowguns and group

  • Yanomami (Yanoama) man with earrings

  • Women processing yucca

  • Group with Village Chieftan

  • Three Yanomami (Yanoama) boys

  • RESTRICTED Banana plantation

  • RESTRICTED Yanomami (Yanoama) family

Group with Village Chieftan
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