Images of Canyon de Chelly, including cliff dwellings, masonry, overlooks, and a river.
Cosmos Mindeleff (1863-1938) started his career as assistant to his brother Victor Mindeleff, who was employed by the Bureau of American Ethnology to conduct studies of Pueblo architecture (1880s). In 1882, James Stevenson and the Mindeleffs visited Canyon de Chelly and Canyon del Muerto. In later years, Victor and Cosmos Mindeleff continued their research in Canyon de Chelly and Cosmos published the first authoritative archeological map of White House in 1893.
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Photo Lot 2006-21, Cosmos Mindeleff photographs of cliff dwellings at Canyon de Chelly, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Additional photographs made by Cosmos Mindeleff held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 14, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 28, Photo Lot 83-14, and the BAE historical negatives.
Reports and correspondence by Cosmos Mindeleff held in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4733, MS 4734, MS 4745, the Herbert William Krieger papers, Department of Anthropology (Manuscript and Pamphlet file), and Bureau of American Ethnology records.
Photographs published in Cosmos Mindeleff, "The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona," 16th BAE Annual Report, 79-191.