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Indians of North America -- Food

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Black and white steel engraving “Guarding the Corn Fields.” (1853). Shows women on platforms driving away birds. By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes. , 1853

 Item — Box Photo F-92B, item: 176
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1853

Black and white steel engraving of an “Indian Shooting Fish.” (1853). Shows an Indian using a bow and arrow (a string connects the arrow to the bow). By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes. , 1853

 Item — Box Photo F-92B, item: 191
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1853

Black and white steel engraving “Spearing Fish in the Winter.” (1853). Shows several men fishing in or near small windbreaks located on the ice. By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes. , 1853

 Item — Box Photo F-92B, item: 192
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1853

Black and white steel; engraving “Spearing Muskrats in Winter.” (1853). Shows Indians spearing muskrats inside the muskrats house. By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes. , 1853

 Item — Box Photo F-92B, item: 193
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1853

Black and white steel engravings (2) of “ancient Mining on Lake Superior.” And “White Fish-Sustenance of Ancient Miners.” (1856). Ancient Mining view shows an Indian using a large tree trunk to climb out of an area where he has been mining with a hammer and pick. By J.C. Tidball from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes.  , 1856

 Item — Box Photo F-92B, item: 170
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1856

Blackfoot Indians fishing along the rapids. Original print, 8x10., undated

 Item — Box Photo R-10, item: 19
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Arikara, Apache, Arapaho, Assiniboin, Blackfoot, Cayuse, Comanche, Crow, Cherokee, Cayuga, Chinook, Caddo, Choctaw, Chippewa, Cheyenne, Delaware, Hidatsa, Hopi, Iowa, Kaw, Kickapoo, Kichai, Kiowa, Klamath, Laguna, Moki, Modoc, Makah, Mandan, Makah, Mandan, Miami, Missouri, Nez Perce, Onadaga, Omaha, Oto, Osage, Paiute, Puyallup, Pawnee, Peoria, Papago, Potawatomi, Pueblo, Ponca, Quapaw, Quinault, Sac and Fox, Salish, Seminole, Seneca, Shawnee, Sioux, Shoshoni, Tuscarora, Umatilla, Ute, Walla Walla, Winnebago, Wyandotte, Yakima, Yuma, Yuchi, and Zuni Indians. George Rainey Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Colored lithograph of two robed “Papagos” women picking cactus fruit with long sticks. (1857). By Arthur Schott from Emory-U.S. & Mexican Boundary Survey , 1857

 Item — Box Photo F-92, item: 15
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1857

Comanche Indians butchering a cow near Anadarko, Oklahoma. 1908. Photographer- Irwin, Chickasha, I. T., 1908

 Item — Box Photo D-23, Item: 9
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Dewey County, Oklahoma. Includes scenes of the towns of Camargo, Taloga, Seiling and Putnam, along with images of farming, transportation, homesteads, businesses, and personalities.

Dates: 1908

Irwin Brothers Studio Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1147
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Hopi, and Papago Indians, ranching and homesteading scenes in the West Texas hill country along with hunting, farming, and business scenes. Photographs of Chickasha and Duncan, Indian Territory and of the Irwin family are also included.

Dates: 1880-1930

J. Silas Dawson Photograph Collection

 Collection — Box D-16
Identifier: WHC-P-828
Scope and Contents

Black and white original print of J. Silas Dawson and Raymond Dawson with a hominy block made by a Wyandotte Indian.

Dates: 1949

Kickapoo lodge with storage platform and a kitchen in front. Presented by M.J. Bentley, Collinsville, Oklahoma, to the BAE, 1911. Negative, 5x7., 1911

 Item — Box Photo G-13, item: 23
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original and copy prints of Kickapoo Indians from Kansas, Oklahoma, and Mexico, as well as Kickapoo bark lodges.

Dates: 1911

Makah woman cleaning halibut catch at Neah Bay. Twentieth century frame houses in background along the beach. Photographer – S.G. Morse, Port Angeles, Washington. State Historical Society, Tacoma, Washington. Original print, 6x8., undated

 Item — Box Photo R-10, item: 59
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Arikara, Apache, Arapaho, Assiniboin, Blackfoot, Cayuse, Comanche, Crow, Cherokee, Cayuga, Chinook, Caddo, Choctaw, Chippewa, Cheyenne, Delaware, Hidatsa, Hopi, Iowa, Kaw, Kickapoo, Kichai, Kiowa, Klamath, Laguna, Moki, Modoc, Makah, Mandan, Makah, Mandan, Miami, Missouri, Nez Perce, Onadaga, Omaha, Oto, Osage, Paiute, Puyallup, Pawnee, Peoria, Papago, Potawatomi, Pueblo, Ponca, Quapaw, Quinault, Sac and Fox, Salish, Seminole, Seneca, Shawnee, Sioux, Shoshoni, Tuscarora, Umatilla, Ute, Walla Walla, Winnebago, Wyandotte, Yakima, Yuma, Yuchi, and Zuni Indians. George Rainey Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Tinted lithograph of “Distribution of Goods to the Assiniboines.” (1860). Shows about 100 Indians (most of whom are seated) waiting to receive goods. Tents and covered wagons seen in the background with tepees in the very distant background. By J.M. Stanley from Pacific R.R. Surveys, Volume 12-Part I.  , 1860

 Item — Box Photo F-92A, item: 119
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1860

Tinted lithograph of “Distribution of Goods to the Gros Ventres.” (1860). Shows many Indians waiting to receive goods at a white man’s camp. Tents, covered wagons, and the American flag in background. An Indian tepee is seen on a hillside. By J.M Stanley from Pacific R.R. Surveys, Volume 12-Part I. , 1860

 Item — Box Photo F-92A, item: 122
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1860

Tinted lithograph of “Fort Union, and Distribution of Goods to the Assiniboines.” (1860). Shows Indians, camped outside the white man’s fort, receiving goods. Several tepees are shown. By J.M. Stanley from Pacific R.R. Surveys, Volume 12-Part I. , 1860

 Item — Box Photo F-92A, item: 120
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1860

Tinted lithograph of “Women Grinding Corn (Pueblo Zuni).” (1853). By R.H. Kern form Sitgreave’s Zuni & Colorado River Exploration.  , 1853

 Item — Box Photo F-92, item: 63
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1853

“Watermelon Party”. Indian women and children on porch of building cutting watermelon, etc. All the women are wrapped in blankets. Fort Sill, Indian Territory. Original., undated

 Item — Box Photo L-17, item: 18
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of Apache, Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa, Oto, and Wichita Indians taken at the Lenny and Sawyers Studio in Purcell, Indian Territory.

Dates: undated

William S. Soule Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-899
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Kiowa-Apache, Comanche, Arapaho, Wichita, Caddo, Cheyenne, and Kiowa Indians.

Dates: 1869-1874