A black and white picture depicts four adults gathering for the building of a hut using logs, sticks and palm-like leaves.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

A black and white picture depicts four adults gathering around a hut that is being built. A man is sitting on the ground holding a long palm-like leaf and a stick, and directly to the right of him a second man is portrayed working on the construction of the hut. Behind them there are two more male figures, one sitting on some logs and another standing close to him, who is wearing a garment.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2002.1065
People
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, American (New York, New York 1840 - 1882 Staten Island, New York)
Title
Aboriginal Life Among the Navajoe Indians. Near old Fort Defiance, N.M.
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Geo. M. Wheeler Geographical Survey West of the 100th Meridian, 1873, no. 7
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1873
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, New Mexico
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/157374

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 26.5 x 19.8 cm (10 7/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
sheet: 50 x 40.6 cm (19 11/16 x 16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto, top center, graphite: Sci2600.290
  • stamp: verso, top center, black ink: Museum of Comparative [over] Zoology [over] March 22, 1943 [over] LIBRARY [encircled]
  • stamp: recto, top center, pre-printed mount: WAR DEPARTMENT [over] CORPS OF ENGINEERS. U.S. ARMY.
  • stamp: recto, top edge above image, pre-printed mount: Geographical & Geological Explorations & Surveys West of the 100th Meridian. Expedition of 1873 - Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, Commanding
  • stamp: recto, bottom edge below image, pre-printed mount: T.H. O'Sullivan, Phot. No. 7 [over] ABORIGINAL LIFE AMONG THE NAVAJOE INDIANS. [over] Near old Fort Defiance, N.M.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Transferred from the Museum of Comparative Zoology Library, Gift of the U.S. War Department, 1877
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2.2002.1065
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Robin Kelsey, Viewing the Archive: Timothy O'Sullivan's Photographs for the Wheeler Survey, 1871-74, The Art Bulletin (December 2003), vol. 85, no. 4: 702-723, p. 718, fig. 13

Verification Level

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