Mexico: Sonora, Jalisco, Nayarit, and Baja California states

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Place: Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula); Jalisco (Mexico); Mexico; Nayarit (Mexico); Sonora (Mexico)

Culture: Seri; Nevome (Pima Bajo); Yoreme (Mayo); Yoeme (Yaqui); Opata; Cocopa; Wixarika (Huichol); Cora; Cochimi; Kiliwa; Kamia (Desert Kumeyaay); Paipai (Pi-Pi/Pais); Guaycura (Waicuri)

Extent: 3 Lantern slides; 929 Negatives (photographic); 435 Photographic prints; 9 Copy negatives

Type: Archival materials; Lantern slides; 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 2 includes photographs made in Mexico while Davis worked between 1922-1926 on behalf of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. The largest group of photographs in Mexico were made in Sonora, among the Comcaac (Seri) community (Subseries 2.1.1). Other photographs include members of the Nevome (Pima Bajo), Yoreme (Mayo), Yoeme (Yaqui), Opata, Wixarika (Huichol), Cora, Cochimi, Kiliwa, Kamia, Paipai, and Guaycura communities.

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.