Wray Falls Down and Family Preparing and Planting Their Garden, 1936
Crow Indian Gardeners & Farmers 1930s
Description:
"Wray Falls Down and Family Preparing and Planting Their Garden": Wray Falls Down poses with his family as they prepare to plant their crops in their now barren garden. Wray stands in the foreground with a woman and two children- possibly preparing the untitled soil by hand- but a woman and another child are seen in the background as the child sets something in the soil, giving a sense of the garden's size. The women are wearing cotton dresses, while Wray and the boy are wearing cotton shirts and pants- Wray is also wearing a reservation hat.
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 #8982.2
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 #8982.2
Creators:
U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Extension and Industry, Charles S. Runyan
Keywords:
1930's
Big Horn County
Children
Crow Indians
Farming
Girls
Landscape
Planting
1930s
Montana
Clothing
Dress, cotton
Farms
Group photograph
Men
Reservation hat
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Black & white image
Crops
Fallsdown, Wray
Gardeners
House
Photograph
Women
Big Horn County, Montana
Boy
Crow Indian Reservation
Families
Gardens
Indians of North America
Planter
image