Thelma Begay Callan Diné (Navajo) on Her Wedding Day with Mother, Mitzi Diné (Navajo)

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Collection Creator: Adler, Abigail

Culture: Diné (Navajo)

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Extent: 1 Photographic print

Date: 1979

Container: Photo-folder 2

Archival Repository: National Museum of the American Indian

Identifier: NMAI.AC.373, Item P34071

Type: Archival materials; Photographs; Photographic prints

Collection Citation: Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Abigail Adler Diné (Navajo) photographs, catalog #; 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.; Some images restricted: Cultural Sensitivity

Scope and Contents: Thelma Begay Callan [Diné (Navajo)] on her wedding day with her mother, Mitzi [Diné (Navajo)]. Thelma is dressed in her non-traditional wedding dress and holding flowers with her mother standing behind her wearing traditional clothing. Photograph taken in 1979 by Abigail Adler in Window Rock, Arizona on the Navajo Reservation.

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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Thelma Begay Callan [Diné (Navajo)] on Her Wedding Day with Mother, Mitzi [Diné (Navajo)]

Thelma Begay Callan Diné (Navajo) on Her Wedding Day with Mother, Mitzi Diné (Navajo)

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National Museum of the American Indian Abigail Adler Diné (Navajo) photographs

Scope and Contents

This collection contains 11 gelatin silver prints that were shot by photographer Abigail Adler throughout the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah in 1976 and 1979. The photographs depict Diné (Navajo) individuals and family portraits; ceremonial scenes, such as a Kinaaldá (girl's puberty ceremony), portrait of woman and mother on wedding day, and a Medicine Man with sand painting; and daily activities such as planting corn, outdoor cooking, and traveling by horse-drawn wagon. Photographs from this collection were possibly part of Alder's "Navajo Matriarch" project funded by the Navajo Nation and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Summary

This collection contains 11 gelatin silver prints that were shot by photographer Abigail Adler throughout the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah in 1976 and 1979.

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).

Provenance

Gift of Gail Adler Hughes (Abigail Adler), 1979.

Arrangement

This collection has been organized into three folders. Folder 1 (P34072- P34074): Individual and family portraits, folder 2 (P34066- P34068, P34071): ceremonial scenes, and folder 3 (P34069- P34070, P34075- P34076): landscape and daily activities.

Biographical / Historical

Abigail Adler is an American professional photographer with a degree in Anthropology from Barnard College in New York City. Adler lived on the Navajo Reservation for five years and began her career as a reporter and photographer, using Leica M3's and a Rolleiflex cameras, while working for the Navajo Times. She received funding through the Navajo Nation and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for her project titled Navajo Matriarchs, which illustrated the complex, modern lives of Navajo Women of all ages and traditions. Adler currently lives in Santa Fe, NM and works as a radio newscaster.

Creator

Adler, Abigail

Culture

Diné (Navajo)

Archival Repository

National Museum of the American Indian

Identifier

NMAI.AC.373

Creator

Adler, Abigail

Names

National Endowment for the Arts

Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah

Type

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographic prints

Extent

11 Photographic prints

0.03 Linear feet (3 folders)

Place

Arizona

Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Abigail Adler Diné (Navajo) photographs, catalog #; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Processing Information

Processed by Tazbah Gaussoin [Picuris Pueblo, Diné (Navajo)], Museum Specialist, in 2019.

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Topic

Photographs

New Mexico

Utah

Date

1976-1979

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.

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Thelma Begay Callan Diné (Navajo) on Her Wedding Day with Mother, Mitzi Diné (Navajo)

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Thelma Begay Callan Diné (Navajo) on Her Wedding Day with Mother, Mitzi Diné (Navajo)

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