Visual Materials

Washoe

Description

Mostly in Nevada. Includes portraits, scenes of gambling; women applying pitch to woven water bottles; baskets; dwellings and families. Also photographs of drawings of Washoe life and legends, animals and birds by an unknown artist.

People identified: Washoe basket weaver Sarah Mayo showing her baskets in a field on the Dressler Ranch, Carson Valley, Nevada, ca. 1914; Pete Mayo; Richard E. Barrington; Lizzie May. Photographers: Terkelson & Henry, San Francisco; unidentified.

Type

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Production date

approximately 1869-approximately 1915.

Call number

photCL 275

Creator

Ingalls, George W (1838-1921)(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

Purchased from Mrs. Elizabeth A. Ingalls, 1923.

Restrictions

Advance arrangements for viewing negatives must be made in advance with the Curator of Photographs. The collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department.

Washoe summer camp scene near Sparks, Nevada

Visual Materials

Two women are applying pitch on woven water bottles, with dwelling in background.

photCL 275 fld. 5 (7)

Washoe summer camp scene near Sparks, Nevada

Visual Materials

Two women are applying pitch on woven water bottles, with dwelling in background.

photCL 275 fld. 5 (8)

Washoe summer camp scene near Sparks, Nevada

Visual Materials

Two women are applying pitch on woven water bottles, with dwelling in background.

photCL 275 fld. 5 (9)

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Cherokee

Visual Materials

Portraits of Cherokee Indians identified by Ingalls as missionaries, preachers and teachers. Several views of school and seminary buildings; group portraits of students and teachers; children from "Orphan Asylum" in front of U.S. Agency office; Cherokee National Female Seminary near Tahlequah, Oklahoma; Baptist Indian Institute and Theological school; scenery around Tahlequah. People identified: William P. Ross; his brother, D. H. Ross; J. A. Scales; Col. Jesse Chisholm; James Taylor; Daniel Gritts; Rev. Levi Walkingstick; Huckleberry Downing; G. W. Hicks; Adam Lacie (or Lacy); Mark Bean and Pete Markam; John R. Vann; Letitia Fields; Lydia Sixkiller; Mary Jones (daughter of a white missionary who was adopted by the Cherokee Council); Little Foot; Rev. John Buttrick Jones and family. Photographer: John K. Hillers; unidentified.

photCL 275

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Paiute (Northern)

Visual Materials

Mostly in Nevada. Includes portraits; woman weaving willow water bottle; men and women playing cards and gambling; locations in Paiute legends. People identified: G.W. Ingalls and Wovoka (or Jack Wilson), originator of the Ghost Dance; Son of the Moon or Wah-Quadzy; Captain Dave Numana; "Old Winnemucca" Paiute Chief of Nevada; Sarah Winnemucca; Johnson Sides. Photographers: E.P. Butler; Latto (Boston); Oakland Studio; unidentified.

photCL 275

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Shoshone

Visual Materials

Mostly in Nevada, Utah. Includes studio portraits, dance scenes, dwellings, tepees. One photograph of Indians with Sheriff Ferrel; writing in hand of Ingalls says: "The Aftermath or the four survivors of last Indian massacre of Nevada before mess cleaned up at Reno. July 1910." One of the Shoshone girls was adopted and re-named Mary Josephine Estep, and there are several photos of her growing up. Several photographs of Chief Washakie (Eastern Shoshone) with his council and his family. Photographers: 1 carte-de-visite by C. R. Savage; Baker & Johnston (Evanston, Wyoming); 2 stereographs published by O. C. Smith (Brooklyn, New York).

photCL 275

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