National Anthropological Archives
Photographic postcards of Native American artifacts in German museums
NAA.PhotoLot.81B
Archival Resource Key
6 Postcards
6 photographic postcards
silver gelatin
circa 1960s
Undetermined
.
Local Call Number(s)
NAA Photo Lot 81B
Scope and Contents note
Postcards made by German museums depicting Native American artifacts in their collections. They include images of a Tlingit totem pole, Eastern bark canoe, and a Hopi kachina in the Museum fur Volkerkunde; a diorama showing warriors returning home from battle in the Volkerkundliches Indianer-Museum; and a Dakota effigy pipe and Hidatsa skin painting in the Linden Museum in Stuttgart.
Conditions Governing Access note
The collection is open for research.
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Conditions Governing Use note
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Preferred Citation note
Photo lot 81B, Photographic postcards of Native American artifacts in German museums, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Custodial History note
Donated by Hans J. Bademann of the German Democratic Republic (now Germany), 1966.
Addl. KW Subj
Sioux
Gros Ventre; Hidatsa
Painting
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
Canoes and canoeing
Kachinas
Totem poles
Sioux
Minitari (Hidatsa)
Indians of North America -- Great Plains
Hopi Pueblo
Exhibitions
Smoking paraphernalia
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Ethnologisches Museum Berlin
Volkerundliches Indianer Museum
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany)