Research Catalog

Title

Native American photography at the Smithsonian : the Shindler catalogue / Paula Richardson Fleming.

Author

Smithsonian Institution

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 2003.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Fleming, Paula Richardson.
• Shindler, A. Zeno (Antonio Zeno), 1823-1899

Description

x, 371 p. : ill., ports.; 30 cm.

Summary

• "This book of hauntingly beautiful Native American portraits reflects the tragic history of the Cheyenne, Sioux, Pawnee, Cherokee, and other groups whose leaders traveled to Washington in the mid-nineteenth century to negotiate treaties with the U.S. government. As compelling as the famous photographs of Indians by Edward S. Curtis, these unique images provide a close-up, unromanticized record of Native American life at a critical time in the history of relations between the U.S. government and Native Americans, just after the Civil War and at the beginning of the great westward expansion of U.S. territories.
• The images form the core not only of the Smithsonian's extensive collection of Native American photographs but of important collections in many other major museums around the world. They were, moreover, the primary material for what was perhaps the first photographic exhibit ever in an American museum." "In her introduction to the photographs, Paula Fleming of the National Anthropological Archives recounts the history of the Smithsonian's first photographic exhibit and catalogue, provides a brief biography of the photographer A. Zeno Shindler, describes the.
• Indian delegations' activities in Washington, and for the first time provides correct credits and information concerning these extraordinary photographs."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Photographic portraits of North American Indians in the gallery of the Smithsonian Institution

Alternative Title

Photographic portraits of North American Indians in the gallery of the Smithsonian Institution

Subject

• Smithsonian Institution > Exhibitions
• Indians of North America > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• illustrated books.
• Exhibition catalogs
• Illustrated works
• Catalogues d'exposition.
• Ouvrages illustrés.

Note

• "This publication recreates the original exhibit Catalogue as an illustrated version"--Introd.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Entry Variations and Numbers in Other Collections and Listings -- Artwork -- Daguerreotypes and Tintypes -- Physical Anthropological Subjects -- Photographers, Artists, and Collectors -- Tribes -- Delegations.

ISBN

1588341216 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002030434

OCLC

50417390

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library