Gladys Tantaquidgeon negatives and prints

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Gladys Tantaquidgeon negatives and prints

1929

https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAI.AC.050

This collection contains 11 black-and-white negatives and 1 gelatin silver print taken by Gladys I. Tantaquidgeon in 1929. The images are related to Emma Mitchell Safford, a Wampanoag basketmaker from Ipswich, Massachusetts, and depict her work and home.

11 Acetate negatives (black and white, 5 x 7 inches.); 1 Photographic print (gelatin silver, 5 x 6 inches.)

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 11658158

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

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Tantaquidgeon, Gladys Iola, 1899-2005

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6351g6b (person)

Gladys Iola Tantaquidgeon, Mohegan Medicine Woman, was born on Mohegan Hill on June 15, 1899 to John and Harriet Fielding Tantaquidgeon (both Mohegan Indians). She was the third of the family's seven children. Educated in tribal spirituality and herbalism by her "grandmothers" Lydia Fielding, Mercy Ann Nonesuch Mathews and Emma Baker, Gladys briefly attended grammar school before entering the University of Pennsylvania in 1919, where she studied with Anthropologist Frank Speck and wrote in th...