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Edith Metcalf Collection of Navajo Indian Lantern Slides

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Description
This collection contains lantern slides that depict Baptist missionary work with Navajo Indians at Two Gray Hills Mission near Ship Rock, New Mexico, at the beginning of the twentieth century. The depicted missionaries include Baptist preachers E.E. Chivers, N.B. Rairden, O.B. Sarber and his wife, and R. B. Wright and his wife and daughters (Helena and Clara). The lantern slides show Christian hymns and Bible illustrations designed to help educate the Navajos in the Christian faith, Navajo interpreter Tom Cartin(?), Navajo mission helper Gertrude, Joseph R. Wilkin and his trading post, Navajo women weaving, Navajo children at the mission school, Navajo men gambling, Ute Indians, hogans, a sweathouse, Navajos working in the cornfields, Ship Rock, a mission school with Navajo children, a silversmith, sheepherders, and the New Mexico desert. Also included in this collection are copy transparencies that appear to be made from negatives that are not in this collection. These copy transparencies have no accompanying information, but they do seem to have been created around the same time as the lantern slides. The copy transparencies show portraits of Tom Cartin(?) and Gertrude, Navajo men on horseback, Navajo women and their children, desert landscapes, Baptist missionary families (including the Wrights), pictographs, and horses and wagons.
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Production date
approximately 1910.
Call number
photCL 517
Provenance
Gift of Edith Metcalf, October 28, 1977.
Dimensions
lantern slides 8 x 10 cm (3 x 4 in.)
Associated people
Metcalf, Edith,
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