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Portrait (Front) of John Temple Collins OCT 1899
The Pamunkey man John Temple Collins sits for a portrait by the photographer De Lancey W. Gill in October 1899. Gill (1859–1940) was a prolific photographer for the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology from 1898 until 1930 and…
Portrait (Front) of Richard Lewis Sampson OCT 1899
The Pamunkey man Richard Lewis Sampson sits for a portrait by the photographer De Lancey W. Gill in October 1899. Gill (1859–1940) was a prolific photographer for the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology from 1898 until 1930…
Theodora Octavia Cook in Field OCT 1899
The Pamunkey woman Theodora Octavia Cook sits for a portrait by the photographer De Lancey W. Gill in October 1899. Gill (1859–1940) was a prolific photographer for the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology from 1898 until 1930…
Agricultural Field OCT 1899
An agricultural field, likely on the Pamunkey Indian Reservation in King William County, is the subject of this photograph by De Lancey W. Gill taken in October 1899. Gill (1859–1940) was a prolific photographer for the Smithsonian…
Group of Twenty School Children 1900
Twenty unidentified Pamunkey school children pose for a portrait by the photographer De Lancey W. Gill sometime in 1900. Gill (1859–1940) was a prolific photographer for the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology from 1898 until…
Portrait (Front) of Reverend Thomas W. Langston 1885
The Pamunkey man Reverend Thomas W. Langston sits for an unknown photographer in 1885.
Portrait of Father and Mother of John and Theophilus Dennis 1899
The unidentified father and mother of the Pamunkey men John and Theophilus Dennis sit for portraits by an unidentified photographer in 1899.
Four men in Sailboat; Fishnet at Shore at Foreground 1900
Four men in a sailboat pose for the photographer James Mooney, likely on the Pamunkey Indian Reservation in King William County, sometime in 1900. Mooney (1861–1921) was an Indiana native who worked for the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of…
Boy and Two Girls 1900
An unidentified Mattaponi boy and two girls pose for the photographer James Mooney in 1900. Mooney (1861–1921) was an Indiana native who worked for the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology compiling information about American…
Group of Five Near Wood Fence, One in Military Uniform? 1900
A family of five Chickahominy Indians, one in what appears to be a military uniform, pose for the photographer James Mooney somewhere in Virginia in 1900.
Mooney (1861–1921) was an Indiana native who worked for the Smithsonian Institution's…
National Anthropological Archives
From the Smithsonian's collection of anthropological resources and cultural documentation from around the world. Most of the photographs in this collection were taken by anthropologists James Mooney and Frank Speck around the turn of the century.
