Project Tag: Ethnography

Mourning Dove (Hum-ishu-ma / Christine Quintasket)

Photograph of Mourning Dove taken in the author’s later years. She is wearing traditional Native American apparel and holding a woven basket. 1925. Lucullus Virgil McWhorter Photographs at Washington State University Libraries’ Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC). pc085b05f71_95-131 Native American (Okanogan and Arrow Lakes), Ethnography, Literature Mourning Dove (Hum-ishu-ma / Christine Quintasket) (1884-1936) Mourning …

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Charlotte Forten Grimke

Photo by C.M. (Charles Milton) Bell (ca. 1849-1893), taken in 1893 in Washington D.C. From the New York Public Library digital collections. African American, Ethnography, Literature, Activism Charlotte Forten Grimke (1837-1914) Charlotte Louise Forten was born free and raised in the prominent Forten-Purvis abolitionist family in Philadelphia’s elite African American community. Due to segregation, she …

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Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Bamewawagezhikaquay)

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft or Bamewawagezhikaquay, photographer unknown, photograph from 1860, Bentley Historical Library University of Michigan, Johnson Family Papers. Native American (Anishinaabe), Ethnography, Literature Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Bamewawagezhikaquay) (1800-1842) Jane Johnston Schoolcraft was the first published Indigenous poet from the United States, the first known poet to write in a Native American language, and the …

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