Showing Tom Yellowtail and Sweet Corn, 1936
Crow Indian Gardeners & Farmers 1930s
Description:
"Showing Tom Yellowtail and Sweet Corn. Mrs. Yellowtail has 500 Quarts of Vegetables and Fruits Stored in Her Root Cellar": Tom Yellowtail poses in front of his corn crop, dressed in a cotton shirt and pants, as a child, dressed in a cotton print dress, examines the crop next to him.
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 report.
Catalog Number:
CIVAM-NARA #8977.1
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, 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 #8977.1
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:
1930's
Montana
Corn
Dress
Photograph
Yellowtails
1930s
Big Horn District
Crops
cotton print
Produce
image
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Black & white image
Crow Indian Reservation
Farming
Yellowtail
Big Horn County
Children
Crow Indians
Farms
Tom (1903-1993)