Virginia and Maryland: Rappahannock, Chickahominy, Pamunkey, Mattaponi, Nansemond, Potomac, Accomac, Powhatan

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Culture: Accomac; Powhatan; Nanticoke; Chickahominy; Mattaponi; Nansemond; Pamunkey; Patawomeck (Potomac); Rappahannock

Collection Citation: Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Frank Speck photograph collection, Photo Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Collection Rights: Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive 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: This series includes negatives that Frank Speck made during among various Virginia tribes between 1915 and 1924. Many of these photographs were then featured in Speck's 1928 publication "Chapters on the Ethnology of the Powhatan Tribes of Virginia" in the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation's Indian Notes and Monographs. The earliest photographs, from 1915, were taken among the Rappahannock although Speck had made an earlier trip to the Pamunkey in 1914. The majority of the photographs in the series were taken between 1918 and 1920 among the Chickahominy, Pamunkey, Mattaponi and Rappahannock communities. There are a smaller amount of photographs among the Nansemond and Powhatan in Virginia and the Accomac in Maryland. Speck spent time among various prominent families in the community photographing men, women and children in both traditional dress and every day wear. Though most of the images are portraits, there are also a small amount of landscape views.
Catalog Numbers: Negatives: N11858, N11864, N12435, N12441, N12442, N12480, N12481, N12484, N12485, N12492-N12498, N12501, N12513-N12521, N12526-N12649, N12660-N12834, N22885. Photographic Prints: P29415.

Collection Restrictions: Access to NMAI Archive 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).

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Frank Gouldsmith Speck photograph collection

Creator

Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950

Summary

The Frank Gouldsmith Speck photograph collection includes portraits of individuals and families, as well as scenic shots and landscape views made between 1909 and 1937. Speck was an anthropologist and ethnographer, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and worked on behalf of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation collecting ethnographic materials across the Eastern United Sta...