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Robert Anderson photograph collection, circa 1950-1987
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Anderson, Robert, 1914-1989
- Title
- Robert Anderson photograph collection
- Dates
- circa 1950-1987 (inclusive)19401987
- Quantity
- 750 photographic prints
- Collection Number
- P0342
- Summary
- The Robert Anderson photograph collection contains photos from this cultural anthropologist include Sun Dance and Bear Dance ceremonies, Ute Indians, Cheyenne Indians, Nootka Indians, Gulf Eskimos, African and Bedouin tribes, Sumerian Period architecture and sculpture. Many photos were used in Anderson's The Cultural Context.
- Repository
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University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860
Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu - Access Restrictions
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Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Robert Anderson was born on 17 February 1914, in Bessemer, Michigan. Growing up in Marquette, Anderson worked part-time for the Marquette Mining Journal, reporting for the daily newspaper on Saturday and over summer vacations during high school. Following graduation from Northern Michigan College in 1937, Anderson taught high school for two years and was commencing graduate work in anthropology when the Second World War began.
Anderson was drafted in 1942, and the Army took advantage of his journalism and writing experience by assigning him to the Stauffer survey of American soldiers in Alaska, a project which yielded the multi-volume The American Soldier. Anderson also edited The News, the newsletter of the Percy Jones Hospital Center at Ft. Custer, Michigan.
After his discharge from the Army in 1945, Anderson went back to school, receiving his M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1947, a year that also saw his marriage to Alma Fassett. Anderson continued his graduate work at Columbia University, but returned to Michigan in 1948 to study under noted anthropologist Leslie White. In 1951, after extensive research that yielded a dissertation on the Cheyenne Indians, Anderson received his Ph.D. in anthropology.
Anderson began his career as a college professor in 1951 at Florida State University. Three years later he accepted the post of Assistant Professor at the University of Utah, where he would serve for the next thirty five years. In 1956, Anderson was made Associate Professor, and in 1963 he achieved the rank of Professor of Anthropology. In 1960, Anderson began lecturing in psychiatry, becoming an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry in 1970. In 1976, Anderson published a textbook, The Cultural Context: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, noted for a mature approach in an introductory work. Having built a reputation as an excellent lecturer and erudite scholar, he received the first College of Social and Behavioral Science Superior Teaching Award in 1980.
After a distinguished career, Robert Anderson retired from the University of Utah on 1 July 1989. He died on 17 August 1989.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Robert Anderson was an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah. The bulk of this cultural anthropologist's collection centers on Cheyenne Indians, Ute Indians and the Willow, or Sun, and Bear Dances. Subjects also included in the collection are African and Middle Eastern tribes such as Nuers, Bedouins, Gulf Eskimo Indians, and Nootka Indians. The majority of the photographs in the collection are not identified.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Preferred Citation
Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Ute and Cheyenne IndiansReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box | Folder | ||
1 | 1 | Ute Indians (Photographs taken by Lois Peltz)
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1 | 2 | Ute Indians
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1 | 3 | Ute Indians
Photograph number 1-3: Unidentified people
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1 | 4 | Ute Indians-Children Summer 1955 (Photographs taken by Lois Peltz)
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Summer 1955 |
1 | 5 | Ute Indians-Bear Dance Photos
Photograph number 1-4: Postcards of the Bear Dance. No.2 has correspondence on the back.
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1 | 6 | Cheyenne Artifacts
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1 | 7 | Cheyenne Indian-Children
Photograph number 1-3: Unidentified children
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1 | 8 | Cheyenne Indians-Miscellaneous
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1 | 9 | Cheyenne Indians-War Mothers Prints
Photograph number 1-12: Unidentified people and event, Cheyenne Indians-War Mothers Prints
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1 | 10 | Cheyenne Indians-War Mothers Prints
Photograph number 1-17: Unidentified group and event with American flag in background
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1 | 11 | Cheyenne Indians-Nineteenth Century
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1 | 12 | Blackfoot Indian Reservation
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1 | 13 | Buildings and Homes-Unidentified
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1 | 14 | "Crazy Indian"
Photograph number 1-2: Postcards of "Crazy Indian"
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1 | 15 | Landscapes-Unidentified
Photograph number 1-14: Unidentified Landscapes
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1 | 16 | "Lucy Little Coyote"
Photograph number 1: "Lucy Little Coyote" beading moccasins
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1 | 17 | Museum of the Plains Indians
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1 | 18 | Duplicates From Box 1 |
Sun DanceReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | |
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Box | Folder | |
2 | 1 | Sun Dance Construction
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2 | 2 | Sun Dance Construction
Photograph number 1-19: Edifice Construction
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2 | 3 | Sun Dance-Preparation For
Photograph number 1-20: Body painting and some edifice construction
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2 | 4 | Sun Dance
Photograph number 1-18: Dancers and musicians
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2 | 5 | Sun Dance
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2 | 6 | Sun Dance
Photograph number 1-14: Painted dancers
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2 | 7 | Sun Dance
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2 | 8 | Sun Dance
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2 | 9 | Sun Dance
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2 | 10 | Sun Dance
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2 | 11 | Sun Dance
Photograph number 1-15: Dancers and unidentified observers
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2 | 12 | Sun Dance
Photograph number 1-20: Unidentified dancers, performers, and observers
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2 | 13 | Sun Dance "Garb"
Photograph number 1-5: Man modeling the clothing worn during the religious ceremony of the Willow or Sun Dance
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2 | 14 | Sun Dance
Photograph number 1-16: Dancers
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People-Unidentified, Miscellaneous, Indians, Eskimos, eventsReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | |
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Box | Folder | |
3 | 1 | People-Unidentified
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3 | 2 | People-Unidentified
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3 | 3 | Reservations and Campgrounds
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3 | 4 | Slides-Miscellaneous
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3 | 5 | Miscellaneous Photographs
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3 | 6 | Africans-Nuers
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3 | 7 | Bedouins
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3 | 8 | Cheyenne Indian "Cultural System"
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3 | 9 | Coronation Gulf Eskimos
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3 | 10 | Nootka Indians
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3 | 11 | Indian Architecture and Sculpture (Sumerian Period)
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3 | 12 | Miscellaneous Pictures From "The Cultural Context"
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3 | 13 | Duplicates From Box 3 |
Unidentified People and Events, Willow DanceReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | |
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Box | Folder | |
4 | 1 | Unidentified People
Photograph number 1-11: Musicians, dancer and observers
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4 | 2 | Unidentified People
Photograph number 1-4: Musicians, dancers and observers
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4 | 3 | Religious Structure of the Willow Dance
Photograph number 1-4: Religious structure
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4 | 4 | Buffalo Skull
Photograph number 1-2: Buffalo skull placed outside of the frame of a sweat lodge
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4 | 5 | Willow or Sun Dance
Photograph number 1-7: Dancers and performers
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4 | 6 | Medicine Man Sketches
Photograph number 1-2: Sketches describing the procedures of the Willow dance recorded by a medicine man
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Unidentified People and Events and duplicatesReturn to Top
(Note: many photographs are duplicates of previous boxes)
Container(s) | Description | |
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Box | Folder | |
5 | 1 | Unidentified People |
5 | 2-4 | Unidentified People and Events |
5 | 5 | Duplicates From Box 5 |
Cattle Ranching, medicine man, Cheyenne artifacts and structuresReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | |
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Box | Folder | |
6 | 1 | Cattle Ranching
Photograph number 1-18: Men roping cattle, riding horses and herding cattle
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6 | 2 | Medicine Man Sketches
Photograph number 1-13: Medicine Man's sketches of the instructions of the Willow or Sun Dance
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6 | 3 | Cheyenne Artifacts
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6 | 4 | Willow Dance Religious Structure
Photograph number 1-6: Views of the Willow Dance religious structure
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6 | 5 | Dome Shaped Structure-Sweat Lodge
Photograph number 1-4: Views of the Sweat Lodge, buffalo skull placed outside
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6 | 6 | Unidentified Structures
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6 | 7 | Unidentified Scenery |
6 | 8 | Duplicates From Boxes 1-5 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Africans--Photographs
- Bear dance--Photographs
- Bedouins--Photographs
- Cheyenne Indians--Photographs
- Ethnologists--Archives
- Indians of North America--Photographs
- Inuit--Photographs
- Nuu-chah-nulth Indians--Photographs
- Sculpture, Sumerian--Photographs
- Sumer--Buildings, structures, etc.--Photographs
- Sun dance--Photographs
- Ute Indians--Photographs
Personal Names
- Anderson, Robert, 1914-1989--Archives