California: San Diego and Riverside counties

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Culture: Cahuilla; Payómkawichum (Luiseño); Kumeyaay (Diegueño); Quechan (Yuma/Cuchan); Mojave (Mohave); Cocopa

Extent: 822 Negatives (photographic); 125 Photographic prints; 43 Copy negatives

Type: Archival materials; Negatives (photographic); Photographic prints; Copy negatives

Collection Citation: Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Edward H. Davis photograph collection, image #, NMAI.AC.001.031; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Collection Rights: Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.

Scope and Contents: Series 1 includes photographs from Southern California where Davis spent much of adult life living and working. The majority of the photographs were made in San Diego and Riverside counties among Cahuilla, Payómkawichum (Luiseño), and Kumeyaay (Diegueño) communities, though a smaller amount of photographs were taken among the Quechan (Yuma/Cuchan) community. The largest group of photographs in this series were taken in Mesa Grande (Subseries 1.2.3), where Davis lived.

Collection Restrictions: Access to NMAI Archives Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu). Some of the photographs are restricted due to cultural sensitivity.

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NMAI.AC.001.031

NMAIA

Edward Harvey Davis photograph collection

Creator

Davis, Edward H., b. 1862

Summary

This collection includes phtographic prints and negatives made by Edward H. Davis during his time working as a field collector for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. These include images made in Southern California, Mexico, and Arizona between 1903 and 1938 that document Native life among numerous Indigenous communities in those regions.