Helga Teiwes photograph collection

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Helga Teiwes photograph collection

Helga Teiwes photograph collection

1965-2002

https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAI.AC.070

The Helga Teiwes photograph collection contains over 7,000 negatives, slides and prints made by Teiwes between 1965 and 2002. For over thirty years Teiwes worked as a staff photographer for the Arizona State Museum, photographing and documenting Native American communities across the American Southwest. During this time, Teiwes also privately took photographs and built personal relationships among members of the Akimel O'odham, Tohono O'odham, Apache, Diné (Navajo) and Hopi tribes. These photographs include portraits of artists at work, families in their homes, daily life on the reservation, special events and landscape photography. Additionally, the Teiwes collection includes photographs from a 1975 trip to Peru and photographs of the Tarahumara (Rarámuri) community in Chihuahua, Mexico.

3775 Negatives (photographic); 3126 Slides (photographs); 433 Photographic prints; 196 Transparencies; 16 Linear feet

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