James A. Clifton photographs of Potawatomi people and material culture (original) (raw)

Summary

Collection ID:

NAA.PhotoLot.78-46

Creators:

Clifton, James A. (photographer and collector)

Dates:

bulk 1963-1964

circa 1850-1965

Languages:

Physical Description:

20 Gelatin silver prints

mounted

Repository:

Scope and Contents note

Scope and Contents note

Photographs depicting Potawatomi people, including copy prints of 19th century portraits as well as photographs by James A. Clifton and Dr. Robert L. Bee of Potawatomi interviewees and a Potawatomi pow wow. The collection also includes images of Potawatomi material culture, including heirloom pipes, a grave house, dice counters, a drum and Ojibwa participants in a drum presentation ceremony. Photographs are mounted for publication and have captions.

Biographical/Historical note

Biographical/Historical note

James A. Clifton is a psychological anthropologist and ethnohistorian. He graduated with a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Oregon in 1960 and was the Emeritus Frankenthal Professor of Anthropology and History at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay.

Administration

Existence and Location of Originals note

Originals for some images in Chicago Historical Society and British Museum (which received photographs from Blackmore Museum).

Custodial History note

Donated by James A. Clifton, 1978.

Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access note

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Conditions Governing Use note

Copy prints of photographs held by Chicago Historical Society and British Museum cannot be copied. Copies may be obtained from these repositories.

Preferred Citation note

Photo lot 78-46, James Alfred Clifton photographs of Potawatomi people and material culture, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Location of Other Archival Materials

Location of Other Archival Materials

Originals for Bureau of American Ethnology copy prints can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in the Reference Prints File and the BAE Historical Negatives.

Location of Other Archival Materials

The National Anthropological Archives also holds$dJames A. Clifton's Research Files on the Kansas Potawatomi, his Report on a Survey of Potawatomi Indian Groups in Canada (MS 7198), and his revised draft of "Escape, Evasion, and Eviction: Adaptive Responses of the Indians of the Old Northwest to the Jacksonian Removal Policy in the 1830s" (MS 7395).

Location of Other Archival Materials

James Clifton photographs of Ruth Landes, a Potawatomi woman, can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Ruth Landes's papers.

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Reproduction Note

Reproduction Note

Copy prints probably made by Regents Press of Kansas.

Bibliography

Bibliography

Photographs published in The Prairie People: Continuity and Change in Potawatomi Indian Culture, 1665-1965, Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1977.

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