Native American photographs, 1904-1905, 1928-1929, 1961.

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Native American photographs, 1904-1905, 1928-1929, 1961.

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Photographs of Menominee and Chippewa Indians from the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, collected by Bruce Paulson. The collection include portraits made by T. W. Smillie of Mitchel Oshkenaniew, Ah-co-ni-may (Reginald A. Oshkosh), Mrs. Rhoda Oshkosh, and Roland Oshkosh, Dec. 1904-Jan. 1905. Also included are images made by Frances Densmore of a ceremony on the Menominee Reservation in Zoar, Wisconsin, where the Chippewa presented a warrior drum to the Menominee, Sept. 2-6, 1928; and of Menominee women playing double-ball, Aug. 4, 1929. Additional photographs include a portrait of Mitchell Beaupre, who worked with Frances Densmore, 1929, and an image of Native American girls working in the Menominee Forest, 1961.

22 photographs (8 folders)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6924635

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Smillie, T. W. (Thomas William), 1843-1917

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The history of photography at the Smithsonian Institution dates from the 1850s. In 1859, Secretary Joseph Henry proposed that a photographic record be assembled of Native American delegations visiting Washington, D.C. In 1867, with the support of Ferdinand V. Hayden, a geologist, and William H. Blackmore, a wealthy English collector, Washington photographers Alexander Gardner and Antonio Zeno Shindler began photographing the Native American delegates. These images formed the earliest Smithsonian...

Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957

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Frances Theresa Densmore was born on May 21, 1867 in Red Wing, Minnesota. She studied at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music from 1884 to 1887. Her professional interest in the music of Native Americans dates from the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In 1905, she made her first visit to the Minnesota tribes and in 1907 began to record Indian music under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology. During her fifty years with the Bureau, she recorded near...

Paulson, Bruce

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Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology

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The Bureau of American Ethnology was established in 1879 by an act of Congress for the purpose of transferring archives, records and materials relating to the Native American tribes from the Interior Department to the Smithsonian Institution. The Bureau's founding director was John Wesley Powell. In 1897, the Bureau's name was changed from Bureau of Ethnology to Bureau of American Ethnology to indicate the primary geographic limit of its focus. In 1965, the BAE merged with the Smithsonian Ins...