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See more items in: Helga Teiwes photograph collection; Helga Teiwes photograph collection / Series 3: Diné (Navajo)

Extent: 181 Slides (photographs); 21 Transparencies (color, 6x6cm); 59 Negatives (photographic) (black and white, 35mm); 111 Negatives (photographic) (black and white, 6x6cm); 9 Negatives (photographic) (color, 6x6cm)

Type: Archival materials; Slides (photographs); Transparencies; Negatives (photographic)

Collection Citation: Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Helga Teiwes Photograph Collection, Box and Item Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Collection Rights: Please contact the NMAI Archive Center (NMAIArchives@si.edu) regarding the use of this collection, donor restrictions apply.

Scope and Contents: This subseries (Subseries 3.5) contains landscape views and photographs of locations across the Navajo Nation from 1969-1998. Of note are the photographs from Window Rock, Arizona, which serves as the capital of the Navajo Nation as well as the seat of the government. When Teiwes was there in 1989-1990 she captured landscape views of the famous "Window Rock" landmark as well as photographing a tribal council meeting, the Navajo Times office and other locations around town. Teiwes also visited Ganado, Arizona on that same trip (about 30 miles east of Window Rock) to photograph the Ganado Chapter house and other activities in town. Other locations Teiwes photographed in Arizona include: Canyon de Chelly, Chinle, Lukachukai, Dilkon-Leupp, Kayenta, Moenkopi, Monument Valley, Tsegi Canyon, Wheatfield Lake and Navajo Creek. Locations in New Mexico include: Gallup, Crystal and Shiprock. The photographs range all types including black and white and color negatives as well as slides and transparencies.

Collection Restrictions: Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Thursday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).

NMAI.AC.070_ref144

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Helga Teiwes photograph collection

Photographer

Teiwes, Helga

Summary

The Helga Teiwes photograph collection contains over 7,000 negatives, slides and prints made by Teiwes between 1965 and 2002. For over thirty years Teiwes worked as a staff photographer for the Arizona State Museum, photographing and documenting Native American communities across the American Southwest. During this time, Teiwes also privately took photographs and built personal relationships among...