Dauenhauer Photograph Collection, 1886-1995 | Sealaska Heritage Institute Archives

By Rick Huteson, Archival Assistant

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Collection Overview

Title: Dauenhauer Photograph Collection, 1886-1995

ID: PO/004

Primary Creator: Dauenhauer, Nora Marks (1927-)

Other Creators: Dauenhauer, Richard L. (1942-2014)

Extent: 13.0 Boxes

Subjects: Tlingit Indians--History.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection contains photographs taken and collected by Richard and Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) staff between the period of 1980 and 1994 primarily for and during the Dauenhauers’ employment with SHI. These photographs contain images of the annual Celebration festivals, photos of various Native gatherings, and a host of historic reproduction photographs. Many of the photographs in this collection were gathered and used for publication in the Dauenhauer’s books, most co-published by SHI.

This collection contains a many photos gathered by the Dauenhauers for their research, and some of these include reproduced images wherein the originals are held by the Alaska State Library, Historical Collections Division and other research institutions. Any reproduction images in this collection (where SHI does not own the original) are subject to copyright law and SHI cannot reproduce these images without the consent of the original research institution. Please consult the archivist for further details. Some of the Celebration photographs may have been taken by photographer Larry McNeil.

The materials in this collection have largely been organized topically and chronologically. The final box, Box 13, contains an addendum of photos found after the collection was first processed.

Biographical Note

Nora Marks Dauenhauer (b. 1927) is an American poet, short-story writer, and a scholar of the language and traditions of the Tlingit Indians of Southeast Alaska. Nora Marks herself is Tlingit, and was born May 8, 1927, the first of sixteen children of Emma Marks (1913-2006) of Yakutat, Alaska, and Willie Marks (1902-1981), a Tlingit from near Juneau, Alaska. Nora's Tlingit name at birth was Keixwnéi, and following her mother in the Tlingit matrilineal system, she is a member of the Raven moiety, L’ukaax.ádi clan, and of the Shaka Hít or Canoe Prow House, from Alsek River. Emma's maternal grandfather had been Frank Italio (1870-1956), an informant to the anthropologist Frederica de Laguna whose knowledge was incorporated into De Laguna's 1972 ethnography of the northern Tlingit, Under Mount St. Elias. In circa 1972 Nora was selected and endorsed by Tlingit elders to document the Tlingit culture, and since that time Nora collected recordings and interviewed Tlingit elders. Nora earned a degree in anthropology and, with her husband Richard Dauenhauer, a poet and translator, she has authored numerous articles and also co-edited the Sealaska Heritage Institute's highly regarded four volume Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature series, titles which includes, Haa Shuká, Our Ancestors: Tlingit Oral Narratives (1987), Haa Tuwanáagu Yís, for Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory (1992), Haa Kusteeyí, Our Culture: Tlingit Life Stories. (1994), and Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká: Russians in Tlingit America, The Battles of Sitka 1802 and 1804 (2009).

Subject/Index Terms

Tlingit Indians--History.

Administrative Information

Repository: Sealaska Heritage Institute Archives

Use Restrictions: Select images in this collection, such as reproduced photographs, cannot be reproduced by SHI without the consent of the library which owns the original photo. Most of the reproduction images in the collection are contained in Box 12, and are reproductions from original photos held by the Alaska State Library. Some items in Box 1-2 were taken by photographer Larry McNeil, who should be credited. Please consult the curator for further details.

Acquisition Source: Richard and Nora Marks Dauenhauer

Acquisition Method: These photographs were transferred to SHI archives from the offices of Richard and Nora Marks Dauenhauer shortly after they left SHI during the 1990s.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Box:

[Box 1: Photographs taken during Celebration 1982, most by Larry McNeil.],
[Box 2: Photographs taken during 1982, most by Larry McNeil.],
[Box 3: Photographs taken at Celebration 1982 [?] - 1986. Black and white photography, and color photography.],
[Box 4: Photographs taken at Celebration 1986.],
[Box 5: Photographs taken at Celebrations 1984, 1986, 1994, and more.],
[Box 6: Photographs collected for research purposes.],
[Box 7: Photographs collected.],
[Box 8: Photographs collected.],
[Box 9: Photographs collected.],
[Box 10: Photographs collected.],
[Box 11: Photograph negatives.],
[Box 12: Photographs collected for research. ],
[Box 13: Addendum photographs, collected for research.],
[All]

Box 13: Addendum photographs, collected for research.

Folder 1:

13:1: Two negatives: one elderly individual showing a blanket with a bear crest and the other negative is an elderly individual serving food.

13:2: Two negatives of a social gathering on a dock in front of a marine vesicle called “Princeton Hall”.

13:3: Two negatives of a social gathering on a dock in front of a marine vesicle called “Princeton Hall”.

13:4: Two negatives of elderly individuals wearing Tlingit regalia; crests include Coho and Bear.

13:5: Two negatives: both are in the early 1900s. One negative is of the Alaskan Band of Klukwan and the other negative is of a large group of individuals posing for a picture in front of a house.

13:6: Two negatives: one of an individual wearing western religious robes and the other negative is of an individual in Klukwan Alaska holding a staff with the Dog Salmon crest and the individual is also wearing the “Stomping Shaman” tunic.

13:7: Two negatives of two individuals on a marine vesicle.

13:8: Two negatives of one elderly individual wearing Tlingit regalia.

13:9: Two negatives: one is of and elderly individual fixing a fish net, the other negative is of Haines in the early 1900s.

13:10: Two negatives of the same photo: an elderly individual butchering a deer.

13:11: Two negatives of one elderly individual posing for photo

13:12: Two negatives of Tlingit dancing.

13:13: Two negatives: one of an old house and the other negative is of Tlingit dancing.

13:14: Two negatives: first is of an elderly individual sitting, the other negative is of two elderly individuals sitting.

13:15: Two negatives: one of an elderly couple and the other is of Tlingit dancers posing for a photo.

13:16: Two negatives of elderly individuals posing for a photo.

13:17: Two negatives: one of an ANB Hall and the other negative is of an ANS group.

13:18: Two negatives of Tlingit dancers wearing regalia.

13:19: Two negatives of elderly couple posing for photo.

13:20: Two negatives of Tlingit dancers posing for photo.

13:21: Two negatives of Tlingit’s wearing and showing regalia.

13:22: Two negatives: one of two individuals on a boat in the Chilkoot area, the other negative is of Tlingit dancers posing for a photo.

13:23: Two negatives of Donawock’s grave site.

13:24: Two negatives of a Tlingit ceremony.

13:25: Two negatives: one of several baskets of food and the other is other Tlingit regalia laid out on a table.

13:26: Two negatives of Tlingit ceremony.

13:27: Two negatives of a Tlingit ceremony.

13:28: Two negatives of a Tlingit ceremony, one photo is of dancing and the other is of people by the donation table.

13:29: Two negatives of fishing boats seining.

13:30: Two negatives of an ANB/ANS social gathering.

13:31: Two negatives of a food donation table and people bringing food to the donation table.

13:32: Two negatives: one of several individuals sitting and standing by a food donation table and the other negative is of Tlingit dancing.

Folder 2:

13:33: Two negatives of a group of individuals at a social gathering opening up a box of sailor boy crackers.

13:34: Two negatives: one of a Tlingit family, the other negative is of a Tlingit dancer greeting another individual.

13:35: Two negatives of two Chilkat blankets a Tlingit drum and a tunic.

13:36: Two negatives of a Chilkat blanket and a tunic.

13:37: Two negatives of Tlingit dancers in regalia; in one negative.

13:38: Two negatives of Tlingit dancers in regalia.

13:39: Two negatives: one of three individuals sitting on a boat behind a skinned bear carcass. The other negative is of a Tlingit elder wearing a Shukiat hat and Chilkat blanket.

13:40: Two negatives: one is of a fishing vesicle named “Bruce” the other is of a group of individuals standing in front of heavy machinery.

13:41: Two negatives of Tlingit dancers performing.

13:42: Two negatives of Tlingit dancers performing.

13:43: Two negatives of a social gathering, people appear to be sitting and watching something out of view of photo.

13:44: Two negatives of a Tlingit social gathering, some individuals are wearing regalia.

13:45: Two negatives of Tlingit dancers performing at a social gathering.

13:46: Two negatives: one is of individual maneuvering boxes full of food; the other negative is of two individual standing side by side wearing Tlingit regalia including head gear and a Chilkat Blanket.

13:47: Two negatives: one is of a group of elderly sailors and the other negative is of a group of individuals around a table of folded blankets.

13:48: Two negatives: one is of two elderly individuals. The other negative is of a Tlingit blanket.

13:49: Two negatives of the same photo: two elderly Tlingit dancers in their regalia.

13:50: Two negatives of Tlingit regalia on display and being worn.

13:51: Two negatives of a large social gathering of Tlingit dancers in regalia.

13:52: One negative of a Tlingit elder addressing an audience.

13:53: Two negatives: one is if an elderly individual, the other negative is of a group of Tlingit dancers in their regalia posing for a picture on a flight of stairs in front of a building.

13:54: One negative of a group of individuals rowing a boat towards shore away from a fishing vesicle

13:55: Two negatives: one is of a fishing vesicle and the other is of an elderly individual either on the same fishing vesicle or a different marine vesicle.

13:56: Two negatives of two separate individuals.

13:57: Two negatives: one is of two individuals standing side by side, the other negative is of what looks to be a Tlingit party; there are regalia on display and stacks of food in the background.

13:58: Two negatives: one is of a commercial fishing vesicle; the other negative is of two elderly individuals at a social gathering.

13:59: Two negatives of Tlingit dancing.

13:60: Two negatives of a Tlingit carver and two of his carvings.

13:61: Two negatives of the same commercial fishing vesicle from two different angles.

13:62: Two negatives: one of a commercial fishing vesicle and the other is of and adult and child individual holding a wooden Tlingit fish weir.

13:63: Two negatives: one is of two individuals butchering meat and the other negative is of a group of individuals standing on a porch in front of a house.

13:64: Two negatives: one of a commercial fishing vesicle and the other is of an individual standing behind a log lying on the ground. Crochet

13:65: Two negatives: one of a boat harbor and the other of an individual standing next to Tlingit art

13:66: Two negatives of two elderly individuals.

13:67: Two negatives of two individuals.

13:68: Two negatives of three individuals

13:69: Two negatives: one of an elderly individual beating a drum, the other negative is of a Chilkat style blanket.

13:70: Two negatives of a village.

13:71: Two negatives: one of a Tlingit artist tending to his craft, the other negative is of an individual displaying a Chilkat style blanket.

13:72: Three negatives: one of a commercial fishing vesicle out by Lena Point in Juneau Alaska. Another negative is of an elderly individual. The last negative is of an ANB basketball team in 1940.

Folder 3: Lukaax. Adi clan regalia from Raven House.

13:73: Seven color negatives of clan regalia.

13:74: Eight color negatives of clan regalia.

13:75: Eight color negatives of clan regalia.

Folder 4:

13:76: Black and white photo of several Tlingit individuals sitting on the steps of a clan house at a Yakutat village, circa 1890.

13:77: Black and white photo of the home of Chief Ko-teth Sha-doc in Ketchikan Alaska. Photo by Case and Draper. Copy right 1905.

13:78: Black and white photo of the Tlingit house called Tax Hit (snail house) of the Takdeintaan clan from Hoonah.

13:79: Color photo of five elderly Tlingit individuals wearing Tlingit regalia.

Folder 5:

13:80: Black and white photo of a Tlingit elderly individual working on a fishnet.

Folder 6:

13:81: Color negatives, eight rows of a Takdeintaan Koo.eex. 10-15-2005.

13:82: Color negatives, three rows of a Takdeintaan Koo.eex. 10-15-2005.

13:83: Color negatives, four rows of Tlingit dancing during Celebration 1982.

13:84: Color negatives, six rows of Tlingit dancing during Celebration 1982.

13:85: Color negatives, six rows of Tlingit dancing during Celebration 1982.

13:86: Color negatives, six rows of Tlingit dancing during Celebration 1982.

13:87: Color negatives, five rows of Tlingit dancers during Celebration 1982.

13:88: Color negatives, five rows of Tlingit dancers during Celebration 1982.

13:89: Color negatives, six rows of Tlingit dancing during Celebration 1982.

13:90: Color negatives, six rows of Tlingit dancers during Celebration 1982.

13:91: Black and white negatives, six rows of Tlingit dancers during Celebration 1982.

13:92: Black and white negatives, six rows of Tlingit dancing during Celebration 1982.

13:93: Black and white negatives, six rows of Tlingit dancing during Celebration 1982.

13:94: Black and white negatives, four rows of Tlingit dancing during Celebration 1982.

13:95: Black and white negatives, four rows of Tlingit dancing during Celebration 1982.

Folder 7:

13:96: Color photo of individual wearing Tlingit regalia

13:97: Color photo of Tlingit dance group on stage with their backs to the audience displaying their regalia; crests include the beaver, dog salmon, killer whale, raven and eagle.

13:98: Color photo of three Tlingit dancers: Elaine Guthrie, Barbara Fawcett and Yvonne Dundas wearing their regalia; crests include the killer whale and the raven.

13:99: Color photo of Austin Hammond A.K.A: Daanawaak, leader of Lukaaxadi, Hit Saati of Raven house in Haines Ak, Leader of Geesan Dancers of Haines. Mr. Hammond is wearing King Fisher fort headdress and sockeye Chilkat robe.

13:100: Color photo of Elsie Pratt, a Hoonah drummer and singer of the Mount Fair-weather Dancers.

13:101: Color photo of Tlingit dancing a Celebration 1982. Crests included the Splitting Raven from the Klukwan area and the eagle.

13:102: Color photo of “Clara Natkong” wearing what could be Haida regalia bearing the Eagle Frog crest at Celebration 1982.

13:103: Color photo of Tlingit elders dancing at Celebration 1982. Possibly Yakutat dancers.

13:104: Color photo of a close of view of a Tlingit tunic with the Splitting Raven crest beaded on the front.

13:105: Color photo of dance group with their backs towards audience during Celebration 1982. Crests on display include Raven, Eagle and Bear.

13:106: Color photo of two Tlingit dancers wearing regalia during Celebration 1982. Crest: Raven.

13:107: Black and white photo of Celebration 1982 showing Tlingit dancers wearing Chilkat blankets. Identified dancers include Rosita Worl and David Katzeek.

13:108: Two color photos of four elderly individuals. Identified individual: Walter Soboleff. Date unknown, possibly early 1980s.

13:109: Two photos of four elderly individuals. Date unknown, possibly early 1980s.

13:110: Seventeen slides of Tlingit dancers during Celebration 1982. Identified crests include the Frog, Shark, Wolf, Eagle, Wolf, and Salmon.

13:111: Nineteen slides of Tlingit dancers during Celebration 1982. Identified crests include Eagle and Killer Whale.

13:112: Nineteen slides of Tlingit dancers during Celebration 1982. Identified crest include the Eagle.

13:113: Ten slides of Tlingit dancers during Celebration 1982. Identified crest include Salmon, Bear, Raven and Eagle.

13:114: Seventeen slides of Tlingit dancing during Celebration 1982. Identified crest include the Raven.

13:115: Twenty slides of Tlingit dancing during Celebration 1982. Identified crest include the Splitting Raven.

13:116: One photo of Jimmie Jackson on his 106^th birthday. July 7, 1981

Folder 8: Slides of Celebration 1982.