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Abigail Adler Diné (Navajo) Photographs

National Museum of the American Indian

Portrait of Medicine Man, Sonny Claus Chee [Diné (Navajo)]
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Object Details

sova.nmai.ac.373
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv4add0bfe7-df57-41e6-9d8c-5c7a1628662f
Creator
Adler, Abigail
Names
National Endowment for the Arts
Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah
Place
Arizona
Window Rock (Ariz.)
Arizona -- Canyon de Chelly -- Archeology
Arizona -- Fort Defiance
Bisti Badlands, New Mexico
Topic
Photographs
New Mexico
Utah
Activism
Activists
Wedding
Ruins
Navajo weavers
Native American Church of North America
Provenance
Series 1 was a Gift of Gail Adler Hughes (Abigail Adler), 1979. Series 2 was a gift of the Estate of Abigail Adler, 2023.
Creator
Adler, Abigail
Culture
Diné (Navajo)
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Abigail Adler Diné (Navajo) Photographs
Summary
This collection contains silver gelatin prints and black and white photographic negatives shot by photographer Abigail Adler throughout the Navajo Nation in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah between 1975 and 1980.
Biographical / Historical
Abigail Adler was an American professional photographer with a degree in Anthropology from Barnard College in New York City. Adler lived on the Navajo Reservation for five years and began her career as a reporter and photographer, using Leica M3's and a Rolleiflex cameras, while working for the Navajo Times. She received funding through the Navajo Nation and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for her project titled Navajo Matriarchs, which illustrated the complex, modern lives of Navajo Women of all ages and traditions.
Extent
11 Photographic prints
0.03 Linear feet (3 folders)
4295 Negatives (photographic) (Black and white, 35mm; 120mm)
8 Contact sheets (Black and white)
Date
1975-1980
Archival Repository
National Museum of the American Indian
Identifier
NMAI.AC.373
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Negatives (photographic)
Contact sheets
Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Abigail Adler Diné (Navajo) photographs, NMAI.AC.373 catalog #; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in two series. Series 1: Diné (Navajo) Portraits, Families, and Community Events [Photographic Prints], 1976-1979, and Series 2: Diné (Navajo) Community and Events Photographs [photographic negatives], 1975-1980. Series 2 is divided into 15 subseries based on Abigail Adler's original order.
Processing Information
Series 1 processed by Tazbah Gaussoin [Picuris Pueblo, Diné (Navajo)], Museum Specialist, in 2019. Series 2 processed by Raven Begell-Long, Archives Intern, in 2023.
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 [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.
Some images restricted: Cultural Sensitivity
Scope and Contents
The A. Adler photographic collection includes gelatin silver prints, 35mm and 120mm film negatives, and contact sheets. Series 1: Diné (Navajo) Portraits, Families, and Community Events, 1976-1979, includes 11 gelatin silver prints that were shot by photographer Abigail Adler throughout the Navajo Nation, including modern-day Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. The photographs depict Diné (Navajo) individuals and family portraits; ceremonial scenes, such as a Kinaaldá (girl's puberty ceremony), portrait of woman and mother on wedding day, and a Medicine Man with sand painting; and daily activities such as planting corn, outdoor cooking, and traveling by horse-drawn wagon. Series 2: Diné (Navajo) Community and Events Photographs, 1975-1980 includes 4295 35mm film and 460 120mm film black and white photographic negatives and 8 associated contact sheets. . The photographs depict scenes with Diné (Navajo) community members, both at their homes and hogans as well as at community events such as at protests, art shows, contests, in court, and ceremonies like weddings. Adler's photographic negatives exhibit the range of her documentary and personal work throughout the Navajo Nation and the breadth of her connectedness to the greater Diné (Navajo) community. There may be content within this collection that is considered culturally sensitive.
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: [email protected]).
NMAI.AC.373
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv4add0bfe7-df57-41e6-9d8c-5c7a1628662f
NMAI.AC.373
NMAIA
Record ID
ebl-1556214129623-1556214129626-0

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  • Hogans; Fruitland; Navajo Community College; Rough Rock

  • Teastoh [Teesto]; Hopi Joint Use Area Signs; Teastoh Trading

  • Big Mt.; Ashike Bitsi; Blind Woman

  • Miscellaneous

  • Callan Wedding - Traditional; Window Rock; St. Michael's Housing; Mitsi Begay's (Thelma's mother) house

  • Donna Nez; Sunday Morning

  • Big Mt.; Annie Homes Camp; Annie Homes Family

  • Miss Navajo Contest

  • Big Mt.; Ashike Bitsi

  • Jenny Manybeads; Wilson's Daughter - Katherine Smith

  • Donna Nez; Mixing Cake; White Cone

  • Window Rock Art Show

  • Teastoh [Teesto]; Attaiki; Revival Tent; Water tank; tar paper hogan

  • Teastoh [Teesto]; Hasteen

  • Miscellaneous 1978

  • Stone Hogan - Burnham; Tire Canal in Bisti; Bisti Farms

  • Teesto; Native American Church; Kanuho House

  • Window Rock; Woman with cradleboard

  • Teastoh [Teesto]; Ruby Begay

  • Diné (Navajo) Community and Events Photographs [Photographic Negatives]

  • Clouds - Corrales

  • Portrait of Medicine Man, Sonny Claus Chee [Diné (Navajo)]

  • Burnham; Louise Lamone and daughter weaving; Alice Henry in landscape; Eaglenests; burial Hogan; Wilma's grandfather's hogan

  • Nez Kinaalda


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