Mark Raymond Harrington photograph collection

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Creator: Harrington, M. R. (Mark Raymond), 1882-1971; Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957
Donor: Harrington, Marie Walsh

Place: Cuba; Texas; Arkansas; Louisiana; Northeastern States; Missouri; California; New Mexico; Tennessee; New York; Florida; Southern States; Nevada; Mexico; Great Basin; Southwestern States; Arizona; Canada; Ecuador

Creator: Harrington, M. R. (Mark Raymond), 1882-1971; Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957

Culture: Mesoamerica; Southwest; Island Caribbean; Paiute; Achomawi (Pit River); Alibamu; Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa); Cahuilla; Catawba; Chitimacha; Coushatta (Koasati); Diné (Navajo); Hopi Pueblo; Iroquois; Kiowa; Lenape (Delaware); Maidu; Menominee (Menomini); Miami; Mohegan; Nanticoke; Narragansett; Niantic; Niuam (Comanche); Osage; Northern Paiute (Paviotso); Pomo; Potawatomi; Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox); Seminole; Tolowa; Bribri; Chiricahua Apache; Eastern Band of Cherokee; Kickapoo [Oklahoma]; Kikapu (Mexican Kickapoo); Mattaponi; Mississippi Choctaw; Oklahoma Delaware; Oklahoma Shawnee; Oneida; Onondaga; Pamunkey; Peoria; Seneca; Shinnecock; Sisitonwan Dakota (Sisseton Sioux); Wyandot; Yara Taíno; Absentee Shawnee [Shawnee, Oklahoma-Pottawatomie County]; Cayuga [Six Nations/Grand River (Brantford, Ontario)]; Mississauga (Missisauga); Munsee Delaware; Wyandotte [Oklahoma]; Gay Head Wampanoag; A:shiwi (Zuni)

Summary: Includes photographs of individual tribal members, artifacts; and the following archeological sites: Hawikku (Hawikuh), Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico; Mill Creek, Tehama County, California; Coachilla Valley, California; Sandal Cave, New Mexico; Eagle Canyon, Texas; Thea Heye Cave, Pyramid Lake, Nevada; Crown Peak, Chisos Mountains, Texas; Pueblo Grande, Nevada; Salt Caves, St. Thomas, Nevada; Chuckawalla Cave, Nevada; Lovelock Cave, Pershing County, Nevada; other sites in Nevada; cacti in Brewster County, Texas and California; archaeological sites in Arkansas, Florida, Missouri, New York, and Tennessee Collection also includes a variety of scenic shots in different states; shots of persons, identified and unidentified; personal photographs of Harrington, his son, and one of his wives (ELH); and photographs taken during his expeditions to Cuba and Ecuador. Includes photographs of the Alibamu, Apache, Catawba, Cherokee, Chitimacha, Choctaw, Chumash, Comanche, Delaware, Iowa, Iroquois, Kaw, Kickapoo, Kiowa, Klamath, Koasati, Maidu, Mattaponi, Mohegan, Nanticoke, Narragansett, Navajo, Niantic (Nyantic),Ojibwa (Chippewa), Osage, Paiute, Pamunkey, Peoria, Pit River, Potawatomi, Quapaw, Sac and Fox (Sauk and Fox), Seminole, Shawnee, Tolowa, Tulare, Wampanoag, Wichita, Wyandot, Yara, and Zuni tribes.

Biographical/Historical note: Mark Raymond Harrington was born on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on July 6, 1882. He received his BS in 1907 and his MA in 1908 from Columbia University, where he studied under Franz Boas. He met George Heye while working at Covert's Indian store in New York in 1908 and Heye hired him shortly thereafter. Harrington spent from 1908-1911 visiting and collecting from tribes in the east and Midwest for Heye. From 1911-1915 Harrington was assistant curator at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. From 1916-1917 he conducted archeological surveys in Cuba and Arkansas, after which he spent a short time in the U.S. Army during the First World War. After his return in 1919 he started a series of archeological surveys in Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Nevada, and Texas. Harrington worked for George G. Heye as an archaeologist, ethnologist, field collector, and curator, primarily along the eastern seaboard, in the south, Midwest, west, Cuba and Ecuador, from 1908 to 1928. He then joined the staff of the Southwest Museum as curator until his retirement in 1964. He died in San Fernando, California on June 30, 1971. Harrington is the author of many books and several hundred articles. A partial bibliography can be found in the Mark Raymond Harrington manuscript collection in the archives of the National Museum of the American Indian, Cultural Resource Center, Suitland, Maryland.

Extent: 2133 Negatives (photographic); 3 Lantern slides; 174 Photographic prints (black & white)

Custodial History note: Photographs taken between the years 1899 and 1947. Many, taken by Harrington on his field expeditions, probably came into the museum during the time of his employ with Heye. However, some may have also come in with a collection of papers (some donated and some sold) to the museum by his widow, Marie Walsh Harrington, between the years 1971 and 1985.

Type: Collection descriptions; Archival materials; Negatives (photographic); Lantern slides; Photographic prints; Negatives

Rights: Copyright restrictions apply. Contact archives staff for information.

Existence and Location of Copies note: 329 negatives, 19 prints, and 3 lantern slides have been digitized as of July 2003.

Restrictions: Access restricted. For information on this collection consult the NMAI photo archivist at 301-238-1400 or NMAIphotos@si.edu.

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