Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Group, candid
Place:
Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
Arizona
America
Date:
1873
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
The original negative number is 95-1318 and NAA 1591, but that negative has been lost. In some prints, the white horse behind Powell's dark horse has been painted out.
Summary:
Major John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), seated on horseback and inquiring a Native American of the Paiute tribe, for the way to the water pocket at the Kaibab Plateau, near the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, in northern Arizona, while on one of his expeditions between 1871-1875. During his years as explorer and surveyor, John Wesley Powell made great efforts to gain the trust of the native Americans he came into contact. He compiled vocabularies, collected details of religion and lore of Indian peoples, and championed the rights of Native Americans. When Congress created the Bureau of Ethnology in 1879, Powell was named its first director (1879-1902), a post he held until his death.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 18, Folder: 57