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Nine photographs relating to various North American Indian 

 tribes and two made by T. H. O'Sullivan in Colombia in 1870 while 

 on the Darien Expedition under Commander Self ridge were lent for 

 copying by James Tiibbesing of Winchester, Va. 



A collection of 33 photographs relating to St. Francis Mission, 

 Rosebud Agency, South Dakota, and to other Dakota Indian agencies, 

 including portraits of agency personnel, Indian police, students, and 

 agency buildings, were received as a gift from Richard A. Pohrt of 

 Flint, Mich. Eleven photographs by J. N. Choate pertaining to the 

 Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., were also donated by Mr. Pohrt-. 



Nine photographs of Spanish Mission churches in the Southwest 

 and IMexico were donated by George B. Eckhart, Tucson, Ariz. 



A large group photograph of a number of Ute Indians who were 

 camping in the Garden of the Gods, Colorado, in 1913 was received as 

 a gift from Dr. Sidney Margolin of Denver, Colo. 



An important collection of 312 glass negatives consisting of indi- 

 vidual and group portraits of Indian delegates to Washington photo- 

 graphed by C. M. Bell in the period 1874-1390 was purchased from 

 W. T, Boyce of Washington, D.C. Bell's photographic work was 

 well known to his contemporaries, and a cartoon in Leslie's WeeMy 

 for September 10, 1881, carries the legend, "Photographing an Indian 

 Delegation, in BelFs Studio, for the Government." In recent years, 

 with the exception of a small series of negatives in the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology uncertainly attributed to him (an attribution 

 now confirmed). Bell's Indian photographs have been little known 

 or used, and the whereabouts of his negatives was not known. The 

 plates have not as yet been individually cataloged, but the following 

 tribes are among those represented: Arapaho, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, 

 Chippewa, Comanche, Dakota, Hidatsa, Sauk and Fox, and some 

 of the Plateau tribes. 



With the assistance of Kiowa friends and relatives. Dr. Everett 

 R. Rhoades of Oklahoma City, Okla., identified a number of Kiowa 

 portraits in the Bureau files. Father Peter Powell of Chicago, with 

 the aid of John Stands-in-Timber and other Cheyennes, provided 

 identifications and biographical notes on certain Cheyenne photo- 

 graphs. During a visit to the archives William Hall, a Winnebago 

 of Black River Falls, Wis., gave information about a number of 

 Winnebago photographs. 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



The Bureau's staff artist, E. G. Schumacher, continued to do a wide 

 variety of illustrating for Bureau and other publications of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. In addition, he made text drawings for articles 

 written by staff members on various topics to be issued in local. 



