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nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:26:15 -0800

Photographer: Nathaniel Livermore Stebbins (N.L. Stebbins/N.L. Stebbins Photo), Non-Indian, 1847-1922

Subject: Museum of the American Indian - Heye Foundation (MAI), 1916-1989

Date Created: December 1921

Catalog Number: P02977

Format: Albumen print

Dimensions: 10.5 x 13.25 in.

Collection History: N.L. Stebbins was best known for his photographs of ships and maritime subjects but also worked as a commercial photographer documenting home interiors, businesses, and the theatre. He was apparently commissioned to take photographs of the Museum of the American Indian and its early exhibits.

Description: View of exhibits in the Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation, Second Floor, West Hall, "Ethnology of California, the Northwest and the Desert Southwest." A very large Kwakwaka'wakw feast dish in the form of a bear (068742.000) is in the foreground

Place: Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation, 155th Street and Broadway; New York City, Manhattan; New York County; New York; USA

Site Name: Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation, 155th Street and Broadway

Island Name: Manhattan Island

Culture/People: Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl),California,Northwest Coast,Southwest

Culture Hierarchy: Central Northwest Coast>Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)

Persistent URL:http://www.americanindian.si.edu/searchcollections/item.aspx?irn=322715

Repository:National Museum of the American Indian

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nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:45:04 -0700

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Description: A participant carves a watermelon in the Food Culture USA program at the 2005 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

Creator/Photographer: Lisa Rathje

Medium: Digital photograph

Culture: American

Geography: USA

Date: 2005

Repository: Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage/Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections

Accession number: SFF2005_6_24_LR_0016

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