Indian Girl on Horseback. Photo Taken by John Hillers (ca. 1872-1874)
The photo is part of a collection devoted to the Indians of the Colorado Valley. The young woman in the photo was in the tribe of U-In-Ta Utes living on the western slope of the Wasatch Mountains in Utah. The photo was taken by Hillers during the Powell expeditions of 1872-1874. John Wesley Powell, a Civil War veteran and professor of geology at Wesleyan College in Illinois, proposed a geological and geographical survey by boat of the Colorado River and its tributaries. Powell's initial expedition exploring the Colorado River from May 24 to late August 1869 received favorable media coverage, in part due to Powell's entertaining lectures. However, the survey yielded very little in the way of physical data.
For the second expedition Powell turned to the U.S. Congress as a means to supplement funds that he was currently receiving from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. In June of 1872, Powell was granted $10,000 to lead a second expedition, the Geographical and Topographical Survey of the Colorado River of the West.
Powell's primary interest was in geology and ethnology, and his investigations centered on the problem of aridity and human adaptation in the lands of the West. Powell's travels by foot and by boat brought him into contact with what he called the plateau tribes; the Paiutes, the Shivwits, the Unikarits, the Utes, and others. Inspired by these encounters and by the ancient ruins of cities he saw while on the Colorado River, Powell later became the Smithsonian Institution's first Director of the Bureau of American Ethnology, a post he held from 1872 until his death in 1902. [From the Online Nevada Encyclopedia at www.onlinenevada.org/]
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Indian Girl on Horseback. Photo Taken by John Hillers (ca. 1872-1874)
The photo is part of a collection devoted to the Indians of the Colorado Valley. The young woman in the photo was in the tribe of U-In-Ta Utes living on the western slope of the Wasatch Mountains in Utah. The photo was taken by Hillers during the Powell expeditions of 1872-1874. John Wesley Powell, a Civil War veteran and professor of geology at Wesleyan College in Illinois, proposed a geological and geographical survey by boat of the Colorado River and its tributaries. Powell's initial expedition exploring the Colorado River from May 24 to late August 1869 received favorable media coverage, in part due to Powell's entertaining lectures. However, the survey yielded very little in the way of physical data.
For the second expedition Powell turned to the U.S. Congress as a means to supplement funds that he was currently receiving from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. In June of 1872, Powell was granted $10,000 to lead a second expedition, the Geographical and Topographical Survey of the Colorado River of the West.
Powell's primary interest was in geology and ethnology, and his investigations centered on the problem of aridity and human adaptation in the lands of the West. Powell's travels by foot and by boat brought him into contact with what he called the plateau tribes; the Paiutes, the Shivwits, the Unikarits, the Utes, and others. Inspired by these encounters and by the ancient ruins of cities he saw while on the Colorado River, Powell later became the Smithsonian Institution's first Director of the Bureau of American Ethnology, a post he held from 1872 until his death in 1902. [From the Online Nevada Encyclopedia at www.onlinenevada.org/]
(Note: An inexpensive viewer can turn the side-by-side images on the computer screen into a 3-D image. The viewer is available from the following source:
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