Mrs Rob't Yellowtail and Anita Showing Their Excellent Garden
Crow Indian Gardeners & Farmers 1930s
Description:
"Mrs. Rob't Yellowtail and Anita Showing Their Excellent Garden": Mrs. Robert Yellowtail, also known as Margaret Yellowtail, and her daughter, Anita, stand within their home garden. A fence marks the perimeter of the garden. Behind the rows of crops and to the right is a wooden structure, likely used to dry piles of hay.
Culture or Community:
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Other Forms:
Originals: b&w glossy photograph
Date of Creation:
1936
Physical Details:
One of two Black and white glossy photographs placed in brackets, attached to a page in the report.
Catalog Number:
CIVAM-NARA #8980.1
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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, 1936 to December 31, 1936.” 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 #8980.1
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:
1930s
Crow Indians
Gardeners
Ranchers
Yellowtail
1930's
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Families
Gardens
women
Robert (1889-1988)
Children
Farming
Group photograph
Ranches
image
Crow Indian Reservation
Farms
Photograph
Runyan, Charles S.
woman rancher