Research Catalog

Title

Spirit capture : photographs from the National Museum of the American Indian / edited by Tim Johnson.

Author

Smithsonian Institution. Press publisher.

Publication

• Washington ; London : Smithsonian Institution Press : in association with the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, [1998]
• ©1998

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Details

Additional Authors

• Johnson, Tim, 1947-
• West, W. Richard
• National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)

Description

xvii, 205 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 27 cm

Summary

"Native Americans have been among the most popular subjects of photography since the invention of the medium more than 150 years ago. One of the most assiduous collectors of Native American objects and images was George Gustav Heye, whose vast collections now form the core of the holdings of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)." "Spirit Capture brings together more than two hundred of the most compelling images from the NMAI collection with essays from Native and non-Native historians, anthropologists, and curators. Whether depicting runaway Wyandot girls being returned to their boarding school, a Seminole woman sitting at a sewing machine, or a Yaqui man sporting a pair of bandoliers, the photographs in Spirit Capture attest to the adaptive strength of Native Americans in the face of more than a century of profound economic, political, social, and spiritual change."

Subject

• National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
• Indians of North America > Pictorial works
• Indigenous peoples > North America > Pictorial works
• Indians > Pictorial works
• Photography in ethnology
• Peuples autochtones > Amérique du Nord > Ouvrages illustrés
• Peuples autochtones > Ouvrages illustrés
• Photographie en ethnologie
• Indigenous peoples
• Indians
• Indians of North America
• Fotografie
• Portretten
• Indianen
• Photographie ethnographique > Amérique du Nord
• Indiens > Amérique du Nord > Ouvrages illustrés
• North America

Genre/Form

• illustrated books.
• Illustrated works
• Pictorial works
• Ouvrages illustrés.

Note

• "Published in conjunction with an exhibition that will open in early 1999 at the National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York City."--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-195) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / W. Richard West -- Introduction: Gazes forward from the past / Tim Johnson -- Photographs by Janine Sarna Jones -- An Indian Americas: NMAI photographic archive documents Indian peoples of the western hemisphere / Natasha Bonilla Martinez -- Heye's strategy: photographs record material acquisitions / Pamela Dewey -- Transitions and tribulations: visible changes indicate new realities / Laura Nash -- Photographs by Larry McNeil -- Camera shots: photographers, expeditions, and collections / Natasha Bonilla Martinez with Rose Wyaco -- Photographs by Dorothy Grandbois -- Process and pictures: the beginnings of photography and of photographing American Indians / Nigel Russell -- Photographs by Larry Gus -- Developed identities: seeing the stereotypes and beyond / Richard W. Hill, Sr. -- Photographs by Katherine Fogden -- Spirit capture: Observations of an encounter / Linda Poolaw -- Photographs by Horace Poolaw.

ISBN

• 9781560989240
• 1560989246
• 9781560987659
• 1560987650

LCCN

98004173

OCLC

• 39108521
• SCSB-13462777

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library