Indian Arts and Crafts Board accession records

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Indian Arts and Crafts Board accession records

1870-2010; bulk 1962-1985

https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAI.AC.072

The Indian Arts and Crafts Board accession records collection includes documents and photographs related to works of art accessioned into the IACB collection from it's inception in 1935 to 1999. The collection also includes docuements related to objects accessioned into the IACB's run Southern Plains Indian Museum. The collection is nearly comprehensive and includes works of art from Alaska Native artists to Catawba pottery, and includes artwork from several renowned artists including, Maria Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo), James Kivetoruk Moses (Inupiaq), and Don Morse "Lelooska" Smith (Cherokee).

39 Slides (photographs); 35 Negatives (photographic); 257 Photographic prints; 14 Linear feet

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11658141

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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There are 11 Entities related to this resource.

Houser, Allan, 1914-1994

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Allan Houser was born Allan Capron Haozous on June 30, 1914. Houser’s parents, Sam and Blossom Haozous, belonged to the Chiricahua Apache tribe; Sam’s father was first cousin to the legendary Apache leader Geronimo. In 1934 Houser left Oklahoma to study at Dorothy Dunn's Art Studio at the Santa Fe Indian School in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 1937, Allan had his first solo exhibition at the Museum of New Mexico. Within two years of graduating from the Indian School, he had already shown his work a...

Martinez, Julian, 1879-1943.

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Martínez, María Montoya, 1885-1980

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Maria Martinez of San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico was a well- known potter. From the description of Maria Montoya Martinez letter to Jim Riley, 1954 November 22. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37992663 Maria Martinez (1887-1980) was an internationally-known potter from San Ildefonso Pueblo. With her husband Julian and the rest of her family, she created contemporary pottery inspired by traditional Pueblo styles and techniques. The family demonstrated th...

Da, Popovi, 1923-1971

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United States. Indian arts and crafts Board

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Velarde, Pablita, 1918-2006

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Pablita Velarde (1918-2006) was a painter and illustrator from Albuquerque, N.M. From the description of Oral history interview with Pablita Velarde, 1965 Sept. 29 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 458412259 Pablita Velarde (1918-2006), born Tse Tsan, from Santa Clara Pueblo, was a prominent American Indian painter and illustrator. From the guide to the Interview with Pablita Velarde, August 4, 2004, (American Philosophical Society) Paint...

Senungetuk, Ronald W., 1933-

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Moses, James Kivetoruk.

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James Kivetoruk Moses was born in 1900 near Cape Espenberg at the southern entrance to Kotzebue Sound. Moses spent his youth and middle years hunting seal, reindeer, and polar bear; trading furs and sled dogs in Siberia and his native Cape Espenberg on the Seward Peninsula. In 1954, when injuries from an airplane crash ended his hunting days, Moses taught himself to paint. Moses used several recurring themes in his drawings, including shamans, the advent of white men in northern Alaska, and Eski...

Naqavoy'ma, 1900-1986

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Naqavoy'ma, also known by his English name, Fred Kabotie, was a renowned Hopi painter, illustrator, silversmith, teacher and writer from Shungopovi, Second Mesa, Arizona....

Howe, Oscar, 1915-1983

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Lelooska, 1933-1996

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