Edward Harvey Davis photograph collection

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Edward Harvey Davis photograph collection

1903-1939

https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAI.AC.001.031

Davis visited the Diegueno and Luiseno in southern California; the Pi-pi (Pais), Kil-e-wah (Cahuilla), and Waicuri of Lower California, Mexico; the Yuma, Cocopah, Pima, Papago, Maricopa, Mojave, Hualapai (Walapai), Yaqui, and White Mountain Apache in Arizona; the Cora, Huichol, Opata, Mayo, and Yaqui of Mexico; the Seri of Tiburon Island; the Chemehuevi of Nevada and California; the Modoc and Klamath Lake Indians in Oregon; and the Paiute in Nevada. His collection contains photographs of Apache, Cahuilla, Chemehuevi, Cochimi, Cochiti Pueblo, Cocopa, Cora, Guaicuruj, Huichol, Kawia, Kiliwa, Kumeyaay (Diegueno), Luiseno, Maricopa, Mayo, Mission, Mohave, Opata, Paipai, Papago (Tohono O'odham), Pima (Akimel O'odham), San Carlos Pueblo, San Manuel, Seri, Ute, Walapai (Hualapai), Yaqui, and Yuma.

770 Photographic prints (approximate number, black & white); 2000 Negatives (photographic) (approximate number)

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 11658212

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

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Davis, Edward H., 1862-

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Edward Davis was a collector who lived near Mesa Grande outside of San Diego. He collected ethnographic objects from southern California for George G. Heye's Museum of the American Indian in New York. From the description of Edward H. Davis papers, 1910-1929. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 67615622 ...