Anna Big Day in her Potatoe Field, 1935
Crow Indian Gardeners & Farmers 1930s
Description:
"Anna Big Day of Pryor in her Potatoe Field": Anna Big Day stands in her large potato patch. She wears braids in her hair and she is dressed in a print cotton dress with leather belt, which was popular attire for women of her generation.
Culture or Community:
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Other Forms:
Originals: b&w glossy photograph
Date of Creation:
1935
Physical Details:
One of two black and white glossy photographs placed in brackets, attached to a page in report.
Catalog Number:
CIVAM-NARA #8729.1
External Links:
Provenance:
The photographs in this collection were published in the annual reports of the extension agent for the U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Extension and Industry at the Crow Reservation. (The text of the reports has not yet been added to the CIVAM collection.) The report photographs were copied by Cindy Ott at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C. in March 2015. Cindy Ott organized three exhibitions of a dozen of the photographs at senior centers in the towns of Crow Agency, Lodge Grass, and Pryor on the Crow reservation in summer 2017. (Catalog records of individual photographs document which ones were exhibited.)
Citation:
Charles S. Runyan, Agricultural Agent, U.S. Dept of Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Field Service, “Annual Report of Division of Extension and Industry: Crow Reservation; To Director of Extension and Industry; From January 1, 1935 to December 31, 1935.” Records of Bureau of Indian Affairs (RG 75), Central Classified Files, 1907-39; Crow; 40761-1912-.023.1 To 130-1936-031; Box 2: PI-163 E-121 HM 2001. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. CIVAM-NARA #8729.1
Creators:
U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Extension and Industry, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Extension and Industry, Charles S. Runyan
Keywords:
8729
Big Horn County
Clothing
Division Extension & Industry
Farms
Potatoes
belts
1930s
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Montana
Crops
Dress
Fences
Pryor
leather
Big Day
Black & white image
Crow Indian Reservation
cotton print
Gardeners
Pryor District
head scarves
Anna
Braids
Crow Indians
Farming
Gardens
Women
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