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U.S. Bureau of Ethnology Expedition Photographs of Southwest Pueblos by John K. Hillers
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Horatio N. Rust Photograph Collection: U.S. Bureau of Ethnology Expedition Photographs of Southwest Pueblos by John K. Hillers
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A set of 24 photographs of Southwest Pueblos collected by Horatio N. Rust and made by John K. Hillers during expeditions sponsored by the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, approximately 1879-1881. The photographs primarily depict the pueblo villages and surrounding landscape. Some views include people and show details such as pottery, ovens, and food and water sources. As head photographer on several late-19th-century expeditions to study the Southwest and its Indian populations, Hillers photographed the Pueblos, ruins, terrain, and native residents of the area, and his images were reproduced in many articles and government reports. This set of mounted prints came directly from the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology in 1888; they were sent to Horatio N. Rust at his request, as shown by two letters accompanying the photographs.
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Photograph album of Southwest Pueblos and portraits of Indian leaders, 1867-1890
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A disbound album of 74 photographs of Hopi pueblos of the Southwest, 1879-1880, and studio portraits of Indian leaders who visited Washington, D.C., on delegation trips, 1867-1890. The majority of individuals photographed are from the Ponca, Yankton Sioux, Navajo and Zuni tribes, with a smaller number of portraits of Apache, Sac & Fox, Ojibwa, and Two Kettle Sioux Indians. The first part of the album contains 26 views of pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona made by photographer John K. Hillers during surveys with the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880. Almost all are broad scenes of the pueblos and surroundings, with one view of Hopi women in a dance circle at Oraibi and one view of a Navajo hogan. The second section of the album contains 48 studio portraits, including many Ponca Indian leaders listed in William Henry Jackson's "Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians" (1877). Other portraits include Yankton Sioux leaders (1867); Navajo chief Manuelito and his wife and son; We-Wha, a Zuni male transvestite; Zuni governor Pedro Pino; and other notable individuals. Besides Jackson, the portraits were made by photographers Charles M. Bell, Alexander Gardner, John K. Hillers and A. Zeno Shindler.
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Mostly Nevada and Southern Utah. Photographs by John K. Hillers made during expeditions with John Wesley Powell, 1873-1874. Views of wickiups; gambling; women carrying water; men with bows and arrows; portraits. Print (12a) has personal note about a Paiute woman written by Ingalls on back. Several prints stamped with credit "Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology."
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Southwest Pueblo views by John K. Hillers, photographer, 1879-1881
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Letters
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Two letters (Feb. 23 and 29, 1888) from James C. Pilling (Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution) to H. N. Rust. Letters refer to "a set of the Pueblo photographs of New Mexico" being sent to Rust at his request.
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Horatio N. Rust Photograph Collection
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A collection of photographs compiled by Horatio N. Rust (1828-1906), U.S. Indian agent and archaeological artifact collector. The main focus of the collection is Indians of Southern California and the Southwest in the late 19th century, including a set of photographs of Southwest Pueblos by John K. Hillers. There is also a collection of photographs related to abolitionist John Brown and his descendants living in the West. The collection has been divided into five groups: (photCL 7) Album of Indians of Southern California and the Southwest, approximately 1886-1905. A photograph album compiled by Rust, documenting Indians living in Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico, approximately 1886-1905. Includes group portraits of Indian school students in California; members of the Cahuilla, Luiseno, Morongo, Mojave, Hopi, and Navajo tribes; the Indian Council at Pala, 1886; and scenes in Pechanga, Soboba and other native communities of Southern California. (photCL 8) Trip to Arizona, 1895 Photographs made mostly by A. C. Vroman during Rust's 1895 trip from Southern California to Arizona to see the Hopi Snake Dance at Walpi. Rust was accompanied by Mrs. Thaddeus (Leontine) Lowe, Vroman, and Charles J. Crandall. Views include Hopi and Navajo Indians and scenes of pueblo life; the Snake Dance at Walpi; the Grand Canyon; the Petrified Forest; desert landscapes; a group portrait of Mojave Indians at Needles, California; and several views of Rust and his fellow travelers with guides, wagons and supplies. (photCL 9) John Brown Collection, approximately 1850-1897. Photographs, prints and ephemera pertaining to abolitionist John Brown and his family. Includes portraits of Brown, his family members, supporters and other abolitionists; participants in the raid on Harper's Ferry and officials involved in Brown's trial; views of Harper's Ferry and buildings related to the raid; and views of Brown's grave and home in New York. There are also several views of Jason and Owen Brown's Las Casitas homestead in the mountains near Pasadena, California, and a scene of mourners gathered at Owen Brown's grave. A few additional items in the collection were acquired from other sources and transferred to the collection at various times. (photCL 10) U.S. Bureau of Ethnology Expedition Photographs of Southwest Pueblos by John K. Hillers, approximately 1879-1881. Views of pueblo villages and surrounding landscape; some show people and details such as pottery, ovens, and food and water sources. (photCL 11) Photographs and Lantern Slides of Artifacts and Indians of California, Southwest and Great Plains, approximately 1870s-1890s. Views of artifacts, some of which were excavated by Rust himself, as he describes in captions; Indians from Great Plains and western tribes; Indian schools in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and Perris, California; Southern California Indians. The lantern slides are mostly copies of photographs elsewhere in the Rust Collection, such as: Southwest Pueblo views by John K. Hillers (photCL 10); Rust's trip to Arizona, 1895, with A. C. Vroman (photCL 8). Topics of other slides: Southwest Indians by photographer Frederick H. Maude; San Gabriel Mission; two views of H. N. Rust's home; Aztec artifacts and ruins.
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