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The Arrow-maker
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This collection of photographs documents Native Americans living in Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma between 1904 and 1917. The primary tribes represented are Hopi, Navajo and Taos Pueblo Indians, but there are also Osage, Apache and several other Southwestern tribes. There are many portraits, as well as posed, romantic scenes depicting storytelling, hunting, weaving, or playing instruments. Additional candid views show people in their daily activities, pueblos, and dance ceremonies. In a letter to Henry Huntington, Feb. 12, 1923, Moon describes these photographs as "a complete collection of my Indian pictures made from the beginning of my work in 1904 to 1917. It includes ... the pick of the Fred Harvey collection that I made for them during the period of my contract with them, 1907 to 1914, and my own collection made since the latter date." Besides the portraits, there are scenes of Indians in their daily activities, including baking bread in outdoor ovens, gathering water in pots, riding horses and tending livestock. There are also views of the Hopi Snake Dance, and the Corn Dance at Santo Domingo.
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Copy photographs from Carl Moon negatives of Indians of the Southwest and Oklahoma
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Photographs of Indians of the Southwest, approximately 1903-1917, in formal portraits and in posed scenes such as hunting, making pottery, weaving, or playing instruments. There are a few views of pueblo villages and dance ceremonies. A smaller portion of the collection consists of portraits of Osage Indians living on reservations in Oklahoma. Many of these prints were made from the same negatives used by Moon to create the finished prints in the Carl Moon Photographs of Indians of the Southwest and Oklahoma collection (photCL 313). There are also several variant or alternate poses of the same subjects, and some unique images that do not appear in photCL 313.
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