Jesse Walter Fewkes photograph collection relating to archaeological subjects

Object Details

Local Call Number(s)

NAA Photo Lot 4321

Creator

Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930

Photographer

Beam, George L. (George Lytle), 1868-1935

Gill, De Lancey, 1859-1940

Artist

Gill, Mary W.

Photographer

Higley, Elmer Ellsworth

McKee, Thomas M., 1854-1939

Artist

Mullett, G. M.

Photographer

Poley, H. S. (Horace Swartley)

Rowland, Wesley R.

Wittick, Ben, 1845-1903

Addl. KW Subj

Blackfoot

Place

Tennessee -- Antiquities

Stikine River (B.C. and Alaska)

South Carolina -- Antiquities

New Mexico -- Antiquities

Huasteca Region (Mexico)

Maryland -- Antiquities

Louisiana -- Antiquities

Alabama -- Antiquities

Arizona -- Antiquities

Colorado -- Antiquities

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.)

Florida -- Antiquities

Mexico -- Antiquities

Hovenweep National Monument (Utah and Colo.)

Utah -- Antiquities

Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)

Navajo National Monument

Casa Grande (Ariz.)

Topic

Excavations (Archaeology)

Burial

Creator

Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930

Culture

Diné (Navajo)

A:shiwi (Zuni)

Hopi Pueblo

Indians of North America -- Great Plains

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New

Huastec

Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan)

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Jesse Walter Fewkes photograph collection relating to archaeological subjects

Biographical/Historical note

Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850-1930) was a naturalist, anthropologist, and archeologist, and chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology from 1918 to his death in 1928. Fewkes received a Ph.D. in marine zoology from Harvard in 1877, and acted as curator of lower invertebrates at the Museum of Comparative Zoology until 1887. While on a collecting trip in the western United States, he developed an interest in the culture and history of the Pueblo Indians. In 1891, Fewkes became director of the Hemenway Southwestern Archeological Expedition and editor of the Journal of American Archeology and Ethnology, studying and recording Hopi ceremonials. In 1895, he embarked on various archeological explorations for the Bureau of American Ethnology, excavating ruins in the Southwest, the West Indies, and Florida. He was appointed chief of the Bureau in 1918, and played an important role in the creation of Hovenweep National Monument in Colorado and Wupatki National Monument in Arizona.

Extent

9 Prints (cromolithograph)

40 Prints (circa, halftone)

77 Prints (circa, albumen)

84 Drawings (visual works) (circa 84 drawings (some mechanically produced))

1,655 Prints (circa, silver gelatin)

71 Copy negatives

43 Copy prints

363 Negatives (photographic) (circa, nitrate)

7 Paintings (visual works)

1 Print (cyanotype)

1 Print (photogravure)

1 Postcard (collotype)

Date

circa 1890-1928

Archival Repository

National Anthropological Archives

Identifier

NAA.PhotoLot.4321

Type

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Prints

Drawings (visual works)

Copy negatives

Copy prints

Negatives (photographic)

Paintings (visual works)

Postcards

Photographs

Citation

Photo Lot 4321, Jesse Walter Fewkes photograph collection relating to archaeological subjects, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Rights

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Existence and Location of Copies note

Digital surrogate for one drawing is available online.

Genre/Form

Photographs

Other Finding Aids note

Inventory available in repository.

Scope and Contents note

Photographs and drawings mostly relating to archeological subjects, collected and arranged by Jesse Walter Fewkes for his reference. Subjects include burial mounds, excavations, drawn maps, as well as urns, implements, idols, pottery, and other artifacts found in excavations, and Hopi, Zuni, and Piegan ceremonies and dances. Many of the photographs and drawings were probably made by Fewkes. Publication information is noted on some. The collection also includes newspaper clippings and correspondence. Photographs were taken in Alabama, Arizona (including Casa Grande, Elden Pueblo, Navajo National Monument, and Wupatki National Monument), Colorado (including Mesa Verde and Montezuma Valley), Florida (including Weeden Island), Illinois (Cahokia Mound), Louisiana, Maryland, Mexico (including La Huasteca Region), Mississippi Valley, New Mexico (including Chaco Canyon, Hawikuh, and Mimbres Valley), South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah (including Hill Canyon, McElmo Canyon, and McLean Basin Ruins), Hovenweep National Monument, the West Indies (including Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, and Cuba), and West Virginia.

Restrictions

Original nitrate negatives are in cold storage and require advanced notice for viewing.

Location of Other Archival Materials

The National Anthropological Archives also holds the Jesse Walter Fewkes Papers (MS 4408), his photographs of excavations in Mesa Verde (Photo Lot 30), his negatives (Photo Lot 86), and other manuscript collections by and related to Fewkes' ethnological research and archeology and his work with the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Correspondence from Fewkes held in the National Anthropological Archives in the George L. Beam papers (MS 4517), the Henry Bascom Collins, Jr. papers, the Anthropological Society of Washington records (MS 4821), the Herbert William Krieger papers, the J.C. Pilling papers, the Walter Hough Papers (in the records of the Department of Anthropology), and the records of the Bureau of American Ethnology.

The anthropology collections of the National Museum of Natural History hold artifacts collected by Fewkes, including USNM ACC 048761 (relating to Casa Grande excavations) and USNM ACC 050765 (relating to Mesa Verde excavations).

Record ID

ebl-1503513350410-1503513350412-0

Metadata Usage

CC0

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw326ec7376-28c6-4b70-ad07-f145221fcf18