Wintun
C. Hart Merriam Collection, Bancroft Library, U. C. Berkeley, Donor C. Hart Merriam, Photographer . Dancers . May, 1923 . xy
Location
Grindstone Creek
Citation Note
Merriam, C.H., Studies in California Indians, pl. 6a
Culture Note
Western Wintun
U.C. Regents, Donor C. Hart Merriam Collection, Bancroft Library, U. C. Berkeley, Donor C. Hart Merriam, Photographer . Earth-covered roundhouse . June, 1903 . 15-22795
Location
Cortina Rancheria, Colusa County
Original Negative Dimensions
5 x 7 in.
Citation Note
Merriam, C.H., Studies in California Indians, pl. 40a
Culture Note
Kletwin group of Patwin tribe
General Note
Re-cat. from 13-4269
Alfred L. Kroeber, Donor B.F. White, Photographer . Dancers in Hesi ceremony . February, 1910 . 15-5085
Medium
plate
Original Negative Dimensions
5 x 7 in.
Citation Note
BAE-B78, pl. 3
Culture Note
Wintun or Maidu
General Note
Slide #1554
This negative was made from a picture furnished by Elmer Lafonso of Chico. For other pictures of the Hesi ceremony made from films from the same source, see 13-547 and 13-548.
U.C. Regents, Donor Alfred L. Kroeber, Photographer . Group of dancers in Hesi ceremony . February, 1910 . 15-22781
Original Negative Dimensions
4 x 4 in.
Citation Note
BAE-B78, pl. 77
Culture Note
Wintun or Maidu
General Note
Five copies including one blueprint
Re-cat. From 13-548. Film for these prints was furnished by Elmer Lafonso, Maiolu, of Chico.
U.C. Regents, Donor Alfred L. Kroeber, Photographer . Two dancers in Hesi ceremony . February, 1910 . 15-22780
Original Negative Dimensions
4 x 4 in.
Citation Note
BAE-B78, pl. 77
Culture Note
Wintun or Maidu
General Note
Re-cat. From 13-547. Film for these prints was furnished by Elmer Lafonso, Maiolu, of Chico.
Samuel A. Barrett, Both Photographer and Donor . General view of Cortina Village looking west-northwest . May 6, 1906 . 15-2678
Location
Cortina Valley, Colusa County
Medium
film
Original Negative Dimensions
3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Samuel A. Barrett, Both Photographer and Donor . General view of dance house and village, looking west . May 6, 1906 . 15-2679
Location
Cortina Valley, Colusa County
Medium
film
Original Negative Dimensions
3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Samuel A. Barrett, Both Photographer and Donor . Placing rain fetish on dance house roof to insure fair weather during the dance . May 5, 1906 . 15-2680
Location
Cortina Valley, Colusa County
Medium
film
Original Negative Dimensions
3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Samuel A. Barrett, Both Photographer and Donor . Placing rain fetish on dance house roof to insure fair weather during the dance . May 5, 1906 . 15-2681
Location
Cortina Valley, Colusa County
Medium
film
Original Negative Dimensions
3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Samuel A. Barrett, Both Photographer and Donor . Salvador in the long cloak dancing about the pole in front of dance house during Hesi ceremony . May 7, 1906 . 15-2682
Location
Cortina Valley, Colusa County
Medium
film
Original Negative Dimensions
3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Samuel A. Barrett, Both Photographer and Donor . Salvador in the long cloak dancing about the pole in front of dance house during Hesi ceremony . May 7, 1906 . 15-2683
Location
Cortina Valley, Colusa County
Medium
film
Original Negative Dimensions
3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Samuel A. Barrett, Both Photographer and Donor . Salvador in the long cloak dancing about table and poles . May 7, 1906 . 15-2684
Location
Cortina Valley, Colusa County
Medium
film
Original Negative Dimensions
3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Samuel A. Barrett, Both Photographer and Donor . Salvador in the long cloak returning to dance house . May 7, 1906 . 15-2685
Location
Cortina Valley, Colusa County
Medium
film
Original Negative Dimensions
3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
General Note
Shows Frank singing up on roof of [tunnel?]
Samuel A. Barrett, Both Photographer and Donor . Dancers returning from bathing after Fire or Sweat Dance . May 7, 1906 . 15-2686
Location
Cortina Valley, Colusa County
Medium
film
Original Negative Dimensions
3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
General Note
Shows Frank singing up on roof of [tunnel?]
Samuel A. Barrett, Both Photographer and Donor . Assembling for Hesi Dance . May 6, 1906 . 15-2687
Location
Cortina Valley, Colusa County
Medium
film
Original Negative Dimensions
3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
General Note
Shows Frank singing up on roof of [tunnel?]
Samuel A. Barrett, Both Photographer and Donor . Big Head dancer, one of Sacramento River people, dancing into the dance house from the east, preceeded by one of the singers . May 6, 1906 . 15-2688
Location
Cortina Valley, Colusa County
Medium
film
Original Negative Dimensions
3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Samuel A. Barrett, Both Photographer and Donor . Dancer in Hesi ceremony just approaching dance house . May 6, 1906 . 15-2689
Location
Cortina Valley, Colusa County
Medium
film
Original Negative Dimensions
3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Samuel A. Barrett, Both Photographer and Donor . Dancers standing before the dance house . May 6, 1906 . 15-2690
Location
Cortina Valley, Colusa County
Medium
film
Original Negative Dimensions
3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Samuel A. Barrett, Both Photographer and Donor . Big Head dancer seated a short distance from the dance house door . May 6, 1906 . 15-2691
Location
Cortina Valley, Colusa County
Medium
film
Original Negative Dimensions
3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Samuel A. Barrett, Both Photographer and Donor . Looking east from railroad station at Williams . May 9, 1906 . 15-2692
Medium
film
Original Negative Dimensions
3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
General Note
Marysville Buttes do not show in photo owing to blur caused by reflected heat from surface of ground
Samuel A. Barrett, Both Photographer and Donor . Portion of Capay Valley Rancheria showing the "so-called" totem pole in the center of the photograph, with Jim beside his house to the left . 15-2698
Location
Winters
Medium
film
Samuel A. Barrett, Both Photographer and Donor . Looking southeast from near the summit of the divide between Capay and Contina Valley . 1905 . 15-2700
Location
Capay Valley, Yolo County
Medium
film
General Note
The town of Rumsey is in the middleground of the photograph down in the valley at the end of the projecting bluff from the left. The Indian village lies in the foreground at the base of the foothills.
Samuel A. Barrett, Both Photographer and Donor . The "so-called" totem pole . 1905 . 15-2701
Location
Capay Valley Rancheria
Medium
film
Original Negative Dimensions
3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
U.C. Regents, Donor Thomas T. Waterman, Photographer . Four young people, of a group living on Grindstone Creek; relatives of Fred Gregory (Wintun) . 1909 . 15-5388
Location
Yahi territory, Tehama County
Medium
plate
Original Negative Dimensions
4 x 5 in.
Provenience
Missing 1956 (ledger note) Copy neg found, photo lab 8/01
U.C. Regents, Donor Thomas T. Waterman, Photographer . Man and his two children, of same group in 15-5388 . 1909 . 15-5389
Location
Yahi territory, Tehama County
Medium
plate
Original Negative Dimensions
4 x 5 in.
Provenience
Missing 1956 (ledger note) Copy neg found, photo lab 8/01
C. Hart Merriam Collection, Bancroft Library, U. C. Berkeley, Donor C. Hart Merriam, Photographer . Indian house with roundhouse in background; Big Head Dance . May, 1923 . 15-22782
Location
Grindstone Creek
Original Negative Dimensions
3 x 6 in.
Accession Number
1799
Citation Note
Merriam, C.H., Studies in California Indians. pl. 1a.
Culture Note
Western Wintun ceremony
General Note
Re-cat. from 13-4055. Copy negative
C. Hart Merriam Collection, Bancroft Library, U. C. Berkeley, Donor C. Hart Merriam, Photographer . Roundhouse in which major portion of the ceremony was performed; Big Head Dance . May, 1923 . 15-22783
Location
Grindstone Creek
Original Negative Dimensions
3 x 6 in.
Accession Number
1799
Citation Note
Merriam, C.H., Studies in California Indians, pl. 1b
General Note
Copy negative. Re-cat. from 13-4056b.
C. Hart Merriam Collection, Bancroft Library, U. C. Berkeley, Donor C. Hart Merriam, Photographer . Roundhouse, same as 15-22783 and 13-4056a, different view; Big Head Dance . May, 1923 . 15-22784
Location
Grindstone Creek
Original Negative Dimensions
3 x 6 in.
Accession Number
1799
Citation Note
Merriam, C.H., Studies in California Indians, pl. 1c
Culture Note
Western Wintun ceremony
General Note
Re-cat. from 13-4057. Copy negative.
C. Hart Merriam Collection, Bancroft Library, U. C. Berkeley, Donor C. Hart Merriam, Photographer . Michopdo Midoo Indian from Chico wearing flat headpiece with long upstanding feather; Big Head Dance . May, 1923 . 15-22785
Location
Grindstone Creek
Original Negative Dimensions
3 x 6 in.
Accession Number
1799
Citation Note
Merriam, C.H., Studies in California Indians, pl. 2a
Culture Note
Western Wintun ceremony
General Note
Re-cat from 13-4058b. Copy negative.
C. Hart Merriam Collection, Bancroft Library, U. C. Berkeley, Donor C. Hart Merriam, Photographer . Michopdo Midoo Indian from Chico wearing flat headpiece with long upstanding feather; Big Head Dance . May, 1923 . 15-22786
Location
Grindstone Creek
Original Negative Dimensions
3 x 6 in.
Accession Number
1799
Citation Note
Merriam, C.H., Studies in California Indians, pl. 2b
Culture Note
Western Wintun ceremony
General Note
Same as 15-22785 and 13-4058a
Re-cat. from 13-4059c. Copy negative.
C. Hart Merriam Collection, Bancroft Library, U. C. Berkeley, Donor C. Hart Merriam, Photographer . Performer wearing skirt of frayed willow bark, flicker-feather headbands and headdress of wands tipped with California poppies; Big Head Dance . May, 1923 . 15-22787
Location
Grindstone Creek
Original Negative Dimensions
2 x 3 in.
Accession Number
1799
Citation Note
Merriam, C.H., Studies in California Indians, pl. 2c
General Note
Western Wintun ceremony
Re-cat from 13-4060c. Copy negative.
C. Hart Merriam Collection, Bancroft Library, U. C. Berkeley, Donor C. Hart Merriam, Photographer . Black-skirted performer with poppy and feather-tipped headdress at entrance to roundhouse; attendants arranging costumes; Big Head Dance . May, 1923 . 15-22788
Location
Grindstone Creek
Original Negative Dimensions
5 x 5 in.
Accession Number
1799
Citation Note
Merriam, C.H., Studies in California Indians, pl. 3a
Culture Note
Western Wintun ceremony
General Note
Re-cat from 13-4061a,b. Copy negative.
C. Hart Merriam Collection, Bancroft Library, U. C. Berkeley, Donor C. Hart Merriam, Photographer . Three performers: two with red caps and cloth skirts, one with bark and flicker-feather headbands; Big Head Dance . May, 1923 . 15-22789
Location
Grindstone Creek
Original Negative Dimensions
2 x 3 in.
Accession Number
1799
Citation Note
Merriam, C.H., Studies in California Indians, pl. 3b
Culture Note
Western Wintun ceremony
General Note
Re-cat from 13-4062c. Copy negative.
C. Hart Merriam Collection, Bancroft Library, U. C. Berkeley, Donor C. Hart Merriam, Photographer . Semi-subterranean roundhouse; Big Head Dance . May, 1923 . 15-22790
Location
Grindstone Creek
Original Negative Dimensions
2 x 3 in.
Accession Number
1799
Citation Note
Merriam, C.H., Studies in California Indians, pl. 38a
Culture Note
Western Wintun ceremony
General Note
Re-cat from 13-4261b. Copy negative.
Robert F. Heizer, Donor C. Hart Merriam, Photographer . Old woman standing with kerchief on head . 1927 . 15-23204
Accession Number
2341
Citation Note
Theodora Kroeber & Robert F. Heizer, 1968, Almost Ancestors, Sierra Club, pl. 9.
Culture Note
Napa triblet
General Note
The resemblance is close but given the age of his informants and length of time envolved, Merriam's attrib. should be kept. [EPB?]
"Two old Wintu women, Ellen Silverthorne and Martha Charles, have confidently identified this woman as Fanny Brown, a Wintu shaman with evil powers." Dubois, 1935, Wintu Ethn. Peter M. Knudtson, Ranger Naturalist, Shasta Lake Distr., Redding, Ca. 9/7/73
Robert F. Heizer, Donor C. Hart Merriam, Photographer . Wintun Joe and wife . July, 1903 . 15-23218
Accession Number
2341
Citation Note
Theodora Kroeber & Robert F. Heizer, 1968, Almost Ancestors, Sierra Club, pl. 75.
General Note
by the whites because he uttered the Wintu word (tome?) meaning "to tell the truth", when he was interrogated regarding a robbery at Old Shasta... Peter M. Knudtson, Ranger Naturalist, Shasta County Distr., Redding, Ca. 9/7/73
"This couple has been identified as Joe Thomas and his wife, who lived on the McCloud Ri. I.D., by Martha Charles, a McCloud Wintu living on Oasis Rd. north of Redding, born in 1888 on McCloud R. She claims that he was called "Thomas"
Alfred L. Kroeber, Both Photographer and Donor . Tom Odock . September, 1909 . 15-5065
Location
Colusa
Medium
plate
Original Negative Dimensions
4 x 5 in.
Accession Number
4687
Alfred L. Kroeber, Both Photographer and Donor . Tom Odock . September, 1909 . 15-5066
Location
Colusa
Medium
plate
Original Negative Dimensions
4 x 5 in.l
Accession Number
4687
General Note
Slide #771
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