Object Details
- Local Call Number(s)
- NAA Photo Lot 89-8, NAA Photo Lot 135
- Collector
- Tilton, Willis G.
- Names
- Field Museum of Natural History
- Big Foot, -1890
- Photographer
- Dorsey, George A. (George Amos), 1868-1931
- Names
- Geronimo, 1829-1909
- Photographer
- Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917
- Hall, E. E.
- James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
- Maude, F. H. (Frederic Hamer)
- Nelson, Edward William, 1855-1934
- Thompson, J. Eric S. (John Eric Sidney), 1898-1975
- Voth, H. R. (Henry R.), 1855-1931
- Winternitz, Ludwig (Louis)
- Addl. KW Subj
- Alaskan Eskimo Assiniboin; Assiniboine Blackfoot Flathead Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw) Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox Mishongnavi Oraibi Sauk & Fox Shoshone Sioux
- Place
- Belize
- Fort Belknap Indian Reservation (Mont.)
- Oraibi (Ariz.)
- Topic
- Indians of North America -- Northeast
- Indians of North America -- Southern states
- Rites and ceremonies
- Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890
- Sun Dance
- Collector
- Tilton, Willis G.
- Culture
- Pueblo
- Sioux
- Inunaina (Arapaho)
- Apache
- Sicangu Lakota (Brulé Sioux)
- Assiniboine (Stoney)
- Jicarilla Apache
- Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
- Kootenai (Kutenai)
- Kickapoo
- Diné (Navajo)
- Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
- Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)
- Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux)
- Ponca
- Indians of North America -- Great Plains
- Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan)
- Potawatomi
- Northwest Coast
- Sauk
- Seminole
- Shoshone
- Taos Indians
- Iroquois
- Umatilla
- White Mountain Apache
- Wichita
- Arctic peoples
- Hopi Pueblo
- Indians of North America -- Great Basin
- Mayas
- Patagonia
- Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
- Fox
- Eskimos
- Haida
- A'aninin (Gros Ventre)
- Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
- Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux)
- Chiricahua Apache
- Niuam (Comanche)
- Coast Salish
- Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
- Indians of North America -- Subarctic
- Indians of North America -- Plateau
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- Willis G. Tilton collection of photographs of Native Americans
- Biographical/Historical note
- Willis G. Tilton was a dealer and owner of the store, Tilton Indian Relics, in Topeka, Kansas.
- Extent
- 685 Negatives (photographic) (circa, glass and nitrate)
- Date
- circa 1880-1930
- bulk 1899-1904
- Custodial History note
- The Bureau of American Ethnology purchased these photographs from dealer Willis G. Tilton in 1962.
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Identifier
- NAA.PhotoLot.89-8
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Negatives (photographic)
- Citation
- Photo Lot 89-8, Willis G. Tilton collection of photographs of Native Americans, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Existence and Location of Copies note
- Most of the photographs have been digitized and digital surrogates are available online. Copy prints are available with the collection.
- Bibliography
- Photographs published in George A. Dorsey, "The Arapaho Sun Dance: the Ceremony of the Offerings Lodge," Field Columbian Museum Publication 75, Anthropological Series, vol. 4, 1903; Dorsey, "The Cheyenne: the Sun Dance," Field Columbian Museum Publication 103, Anthropological Series, vol. 4, no. 2, 1905; Dorsey and H. R. Voth, "The Oraibi Soyal Ceremony," Field Columbian Museum Publication 55, Anthropological Series, vol. 3, no. 1, 1901; Dorsey and Voth, "The Mishongnovi Ceremonies of the Snake and Antelope Fraternities, Field Columbian Museum Publication 66, Anthropological Series, vol. 3, no. 3, 1902; Voth, "The Oraibi Summer Snake Ceremony," Field Columbian Museum Publication 83, Anthropological Series, vol. 3, no. 4, 1903; Voth, "The Oraibi Oaqol Ceremony," Field Columbian Museum Publication 84, Anthropological Series, vol. 6, no. 1, 1903; Dorsey, "The Ponca Sun Dance," Field Columbian Museum Publication 102, Anthropological Series, vol. 7, no. 2, 1905; Voth, "The Oraibi Marau Ceremony," Field Columbian Museum Publication 156, Anthropological Series, vol. 11, no. 1, 1912; J. Eric Thompson, "Ethnology of the Mayas of Southern and Central British Honduras," Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago) Publication 274, Anthropological Series, vol. 17, no. 2, 1930; Thompson, "Archeological Investigations of the SOuthern Cayo District, British Honduras," Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago) Publication 301, Anthropological Series, vol. 17, no. 3, 1931; Thompson, "The Civilization of the Mayas," Chicago Field Museum, Anthropological Leaflet, no. 25, 1927; Edward William Nelson, "The Eskimo about Bering Strait," 18th BAE Annual Report, 1900; John Murdoch, "Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition," 9th BAE Annual Report, 1892.
- Other Finding Aids note
- Inventory available in repository.
- Scope and Contents note
- Photographs collected by Willis G. Tilton, a dealer in artifacts and photographs relating to Native Americans. Many of the photographs were made by Field Columbian Museum photographer Charles Carpenter at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904; many others were created by various photographers for Field Museum publications. Notable subjects include Big Foot, dead in the snow at the Wounded Knee battlefield; Arapaho and Cheyenne social dances; Hopi ceremonies; a reenactment of the shooting of Sitting Bull; Sun Dances (Arapaho, Assiniboin, Gros Ventre, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Ponca); and views of the United States Indian School Building and Pawnee people at the the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri. Other photographs include portraits and images of artifacts, basket weaving, cradles, dress, dwelling, tipis and other dwellings, and tree burials. There are also some photographs of Henry Field's expedition to Iraq in 1934 (Field museum anthropological expedition to the Near East), work elephants in Burma, Pipestone Quarry in Minnesota, a church in the Yucatan, and a rickshaw and cart in Ceylon.
- Restrictions
- The collection is open for research. Access to the collection requires an appointment.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503512935082-1503512935085-0
