![Indian Catholic Church. [with] Indian Wedding](/pictures/thumb/5167_1.jpg?v=1572624787)
Two remarkable photos—one of an “Indian Wedding”—documenting the communal bond between Menominee people and local white folks at the St. Joseph of the Lake Church, located on the Menominee Reservation, in northeastern Wisconsin. The St. Joseph of the Lake Church was established by Roman Catholic missionaries who settled in.....
Two real photo postcards picturing composer and researcher Thurlow W. Lieurance performing with Native American musicians. Born in Iowa, Thurlow W. Lieurance (1878–1963) was a composer who did much to help advance and promote knowledge about Native American music. Lieurance is shown in both of these images in nature.....
A rare and captivating set of photographs by a little-known photographer who worked among the Assiniboine and Sioux, comprising eight striking studio portraits of chiefs and braves, as well as one full-length portrait and six group shots taken in the field. S. W. Ormsby (American, active c. 1900) maintained a......
A scarce pair of studio photographs of Choctaw children, including a boy and two girls, by noted western photographer and painter Antonio Zeno Shindler (1823–1899). While dated 1872 in manuscript, the Smithsonian dates the portrait of the two girls to 1868 and identifies Shindler as the photographer. The portrait.....
![Photographs of the Nunamiut people of Alaska.]. Ward W. Wells, photographer](/pictures/thumb/6513_1.jpg?v=1613593086)
A collection of press photos of the Nunamiut people of Alaska in the early 1960s, with sharply shot, thoughtfully composed scenes of life during a period of great change, including several shots of important Nunamiut guide and educator Simon Paneak. Eleven of these photos were taken in 1962 by.....