Two photograph albums depicting native Americans in Washington State.

1910-1911.

2 photograph albums (147 photographic prints) (in 2 boxes) : gelatin silver ; 19.3 x 24.6 cm. and smaller.

Purchased from Andrew Smith Gallery, Inc. on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 1987.

Clair Hunt was a surveyor; in 1906 was Special Allotting Agent in charge of the allotment of the Spokane Indian Reservation, and in 1911 apparently worked as alloting agent at the Colville Reservation.

Photograph albums containing portraits of Nespelim, Nez Percé, Paloos, Sinikiuse-Columbia, Spokane, and Yakama Indians. Men, women and children are posed outside or in front of a background of tents or blankets; many women hold beaded handbags and children in decorative cradleboards. Includes pictures of men playing cards, a surveyors camp on the Colville Reservation and the survey crew, and settlers on the Spokane Indian Reservation.

English

June 01, 2002

Clair Hunt, Two Photograph Albums Depicting Native Americans in Washington State. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Clair Hunt, Two Photograph Albums Depicting Native Americans in Washington State. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.