[Photo Album]: "Indian Celebration"

Title: [Photo Album]: "Indian Celebration"
Publication: Mesa, Arizona: 1947

Description: Softcover. Oblong quarto measuring 12" x 9". String-tied brown leather over stiff paper boards with "photographs" stamped in gilt on the front board. Contains 35 black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring around 3.5" x 5" with some captions. Near fine album with fine photographs.

A photo album detailing an "Indian Celebration" in Mesa Arizona in 1947. The album beings with a cut out from the program of a Native American in traditional dress with "Indian Celebration Dec. 4-5-6-7 Mesa Arizona" underneath. Following this is a clipping which reads, "Husky Mark Vest of the Maricopa tribe, standing well over six feet, will be one of the hundreds of performers to be seen each night through Sunday at the first National Indian Celebration in Mesa." The rest of the album features photographs from the events including a parade through town, dancing, music, and people in traditional Native American dress. Other pages include clippings from the program from the events and local newspapers one of which shows a "Hopi dance chanter and a Hopi dancer;" another reads "Indian Squaws from Ute, Navajo, and Laguna Tribes." One photograph portrait of a man reads "Kolachaftewa, chief of the Hopi Buffalo clan" and another shows Tony Whitecloud the "founder of the modern Hoop Dance."

A modest but interesting collection of photographs following a Native American cultural event in the 1940s.

Seller ID: 417351

Subject: Americana, Ephemera, Photography, Travel Books