Montana State University-Bozeman Library, Merrill G
Burlingame Special Collections
P.O. Box 173320
Bozeman, MT 59717-3320
United States
Phone (406) 994-4242
Fax (406) 994-2851
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University Archivist
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Collection 1126, MtBC, us
Hannon, Olga
Ross
Olga Ross Hannon
Photographs
1944-1947
.4 linear feet
The Olga Ross Hannon Photographs consist of
photographic prints and 35mm transparencies. The images were taken by Hannon or
collected by her. Also found in the collection are samples of artwork created by
Hannon or Native American Artists, as well as a selection of postcards. These images
are primarily of the Blackfeet, Crow, Northern Cheyenne, and Chippewa-Cree people of
Montana, with an emphasis on their lodge designs.
Collection materials are in English
Biographical Note
Olga Ross Hannon was born in Moline, Illinois on September 15, 1890. She received her
art education at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Students League of New
York City, the New York School of Fine and Applied Art and the Snow-Froelich School
of Industrial Art. Hannon taught art at the Sheridan, Wyoming high school prior to
joining the faculty at Montana State College in Bozeman in 1921. She served as Head
of Applied Art at MSC from 1941-1947. She served as Acting Dean of the Division of
Household and Applied Arts in 1944-1945. In addition to her teaching duties she
organized Delta Phi Delta, the art honorary at Montana State College and served as a
national president for eight years. Mrs. Hannon was Montana representative for the
American Artists Professional League. She was editor of the art section of the MEA.
Mrs. Hannon was a collector of Indian, Oriental and Mexican arts and crafts and a
photographed native peoples throughout Montana and other western states. She
spearheaded a project for the preservation of the designs on the painted lodges of
the Blackfeet Indians by means of the silk screen process. Hannon died in
Wickenburg, Arizona on May 4, 1947.
The Hannon images have been divided into two boxes: photographic prints and 35mm
transparencies. The 435 prints in Box 1 are (for the most part) photographs taken by
Hannon herself or collected by her and have been individually numbered. These
numbered prints have been placed in thirty-nine numbered folders that have broad
topical labels. Among these photographs can be found samples of artwork created by
Hannon or Native American artists, and a large selection of postcards. Most of the
postcards pertain to Indian tribes of the American southwest and have been placed in
folders 14 through 39. The 35mm transparencies consist of 270 images that have not
been placed in numbered folders. As a result, the slides themselves have been
assigned individual image numbers that are prefaced with the word "slide." The
titles were taken from notes written on the cardboard slide mountings. These images
are primarily of the Blackfeet, Crow, Northern Cheyenne, and Chippewa-Cree people of
Montana, with an emphasis on their lodge designs.
This collection is open for research.
Original 35 mm slides and photographic prints of Montana Native American peoples and
their lodges created by Olga Ross Hannon were donated to Montana State University by
her friend, Jessie Wilber of Bozeman, Montana on January 28, 1977. This collection
incorporates images previously designated as Collection 2252.
This collection was processed 2017 September 12
Native
Americans
Women
Montana
Photographs
1/1
Assiniboine Indians, Images #1-2
1/2
Mostafa Adl and the Iranian Delegation at
Glacier National Park, Images #3-24
June 30, 1945
1/3
Blackfeet Indians, Images #25-55
1/4
Blackfeet Indians, Images #56-70
1/5
Blackfeet Indians, Images #71-145
1/6
Cheyenne Indians, Images #146-151
1/7
Glacier National Park, Images
#152-154
1/8
Various tribes, Images #155-168
1/9
Crow Indians, Images #169-218
1/10
Various tribes, Images #219-227
1/11
Parflesch designs, Images #228-231
1/12
Heilman photos, Images #232-243
1/13
Miscellaneous artwork, Images
#238-243
1/14
Acoma, Images #244-256
1/15
Acoma Laguna, Images #257-264
1/16
Apache, Images #265-267
1/17
Chimayo, Images 268-273
1/18
Cochiti, Images #274-281
1/19
Firjoles, Images #282-288
1/20
General, Images #289-291
1/21
Hopi, Images #292-300
1/22
Isleta, Images #301-304
1/23
Mesa Verde, Images #305-310
1/24
Moqui, Image #311
1/25
Navajo, Images #312-334
1/26
Pueblo, Images #335-338
1/27
Puye, Images #339-340
1/28
San Dia, Image #341
1/29
San Ildefonso, Images #342-354
1/30
San Juan, Image #355
1/31
San Philippe, Images #356-360
1/32
Santa Clara, Images #361-369
1/33
Santa Domingo, Images #370-380
1/34
Santa Fe, Images #381-384
1/35
Tesuque, Images #385-389
1/36
Taos, Images #390-400
1/37
Taos, Images #401-410
1/38
Taos, Images #411-420
1/39
Taos, Images #421-435
2/1
Blood Encampment
July 1944
2/2
Blood Encampment
1944
2/3
Blackfoot Encampment
June 1944
2/4-5
Blood Encampment
July 1944
2/6
General Tipis Heart Butte, Montana
July 1944
2/7
Tipis Browning, Montana
1942
2/8-9
Tipis Browning, Montana
1944
2/10
Tipis Little Badger, Montana
July 1942
2/11
General Tipis Heart Butte, Montana
1944
2/12
Blackfoot Sacred Lodge (right)
June 1945
2/13
Blackfoot men learning to get poles for Sun
Dance Lodge
July 1945
2/14
Blackfoot men learning to get Sun Dance Lodge
poles
July 1945
2/15
Bringing poles and brush for Sun Dance Lodge
Little Badger, Montana
July 1942
2/16
Tipis Blackfeet
1945
2/7
Sun Dance Lodge Heart Butte,
Montana
1944
2/18
Part of Weasel Tail Blackfoot
July 1945
2/19
Blackfoot Sun Lodge
July 1942
2/20
Sun Dance Lodge Browning, Montana
1944
2/21
Buffalo skull behind Sun Dance Lodge Browning,
Mintana
July 1945
2/22
Inside Sun Dance Lodge
2/23
Blessing people inside Sun Dance Lodge
Browning, Montana
1944
2/24-25
Chewing Black Bones at Sun Dance Lodge
Browning, Montana
1944
2/26
Chewing Black Bones blessing people in Sun
Dance Lodge Browning, Montana
1944
2/27
Chewing Black Bones in Sun Dance Lodge
Blackfoot
July 1945
2/28
Blackfoot Sweat Lodge Browning,
Montana
July 1945
2/29
Blackfoot Sacred Lodge
July 1945
2/30-31
Blackfoot Medicine Women
July 1945
2/32
Indians and Tipis at Little Badger
1942
2/33
Setting up tipi Browning, Montana
July 1944
2/34-35
Pole arrangements Blackfoot
July 1945
2/36
Tipi rings ten miles south of Browning,
Montana
2/37
Blood Medicine Bundle
2/38
War Banner Browning, Montana
July 1944
2/39
Tipi lining Made by Julia Wades in the Water
Browning, Montana
1944
2/40
Tipi door panel - Julia Wades in the Water
tipi Browning, Montana
1944
2/41
Painted lodge lining Owner: Mr. R. H.
Willcomb
2/42
Unidentified
2/43-44
Jerky drying Browning, Montana
1944
2/45
Blackfoot Travois
1942
2/46-47
Stickgame Browning, Montana
July 1942
2/48
Game of sticks Heart Butte,
Montana
July 1944
2/49
Blackfoot Grass Dance
1942
2/50
Grass Dance Browning, Montana
1944
2/51-52
Blackfoot Grass Dance
July 1942
2/53-56
At a War Dance Browning, Montana
July 1944
2/57
Crazy Dogs Browning, Montana
1944
2/58
At a War Dance Browning, Montana
July 1944
2/59-63
At a War Dance Browning, Montana
1944
2/64
Indians on horseback Browning,
Montana
1942
2/65
Group of Blackfeet Browning,
Montana
July 1944
2/66
Group of Blackfoot at ceremony
July 1, 1945
2/67
Indian ceremony Little Badger,
Montana
July 1942
2/68
Blackfoot Ceremony
July 1, 1945
2/69
Group of Blackfoot
July 1, 1945
2/70
Blackfoot Chief
July 1942
2/71
Blackfoot Give Away
July 1942
2/72
Indian on horse Browning, Montana
July 1944
2/73
Indians on flatbed Browning,
Montana
July 1944
2/74
4th of July Parade Browning,
Montana
July 1944
2/75
4th of July Parade Browning,
Montana
July 4, 1942
2/76
Blackfoot Browning, Montana
July 4, 1944
2/77
Blackfoot on horse Browning,
Montana
July 4, 1944
2/78
Blackfoot (group sitting at
ceremony)
1945
2/79
Blackfoot (group of chiefs sitting at
ceremony)
1942
2/80
Blackfoot give away in old Sun Dance
Lodge
July 1945
2/81
Give away Heart Butte, Montana
July 1945
2/82
Peter Whiteman Heart Butte,
Montana
July 1945
2/83
Joe Spotted Eagle Heart Butte,
Montana
July 1945
2/84
Pete Whiteman and son; Joe Spotted Eagle and
son Heart Butte, Montana
July 1945
2/85
Eugene Head Carrier, Raymond Aims Back Heart
Butte, Montana
July 1945
2/86
Albert Mad Plume Heart Butte,
Montana
July 1944
2/87
Sipeakumi (Night Howler) Heart Butte,
Montana
July 1945
2/88
Mrs. Frank (Kate) Many Fingers, Blood
Indian
2/89
Blackfoot with horse
July 1942
2/90
Marie Bear Medicine Blackfoot
1942
2/91
Woman and child in front of tipi Browning,
Montana
July 1942
2/92
Blackfoot woman
1942
2/93
Joe New Robe Heart Butte, Montana
July 1945
2/94
Mr. and Mrs. Big Face Chief - Bloods of
Brockett, Alberta, Canada Browning, Montana
1944
2/95
Mr. Swims Under Little Badger,
Montana
1942
2/96
Fred Tail Feathers at All Star lodge Browning,
Montana
1944(?)
2/97
Fred Tail Feathers, Blood Reserve, "All Star"
tipi used by John Eagle Ribs, Browning, Montana
1944
2/98
Antelope tipi Mrs. Bob Rider, Blood
Indian
2/99
Bear tipi Mrs. Rough Hair, Blood
Indian
2/100-101
Bear tipi (detail) Mrs. Rough Hair, Blood
Indian
2/102
Bear tipi Mrs. Rough Hair, Blood
Indian
2/103
Bear tipi (detail) Mrs. Rough Hair, Blood
Indian
2/104
Beaver or Badger tipi Cecil Black Boy
Blackfoot
July 1942
2/105
Beaver Tail tipi Middle Rider
Blackfoot
June 1945
2/106
Beaver Tail tipi Middle Rider
Blackfoot
1944
2/107
Rear of Beaver Tail tipi Middle Rider -
Blackfoot
June 1945
2/108
Big Rock tipi Minnie Aims Baack Heart Butte,
Montana
1944
2/109-110
Yellow Buffalo tipi James White Calf Browning,
Montana
1944
2/111
Yellow Buffalo tipi (detail)
2/112-113
Yellow Buffalo tipi James White Calf Browning,
Montana
1944
2/114
Buffalo Head tipi Mud Head Browning,
Montana
1944
2/115
Buffalo Head tipi (detail) Mud Head Browning,
Montana
1944
2/116
Buffalo Hoofs tipi Mrs. Black Plume, Blood
Indian
2/117
Buffalo Hoofs tipi belongs to Mary Ground
Blackfoot
1945
2/118
Cow Head Tipi (detail) Frank Choate, "Red
Paint" Browning, Montana
July 1944
2/119
Cow Head tipi Blood Indian
1944
2/120
Cow Head tipi (detail) Blood
Indian
1944
2/121
Crow tipi (detail) Henry and Isabel Bear
Medicine Browning, Montana
1944
2/122
Crow tipi Henry and Isabel Bear Medicine
Browning, Montana
1944
2/123-124
Curlew tipi (detail) Mark Wolf Child, Blood
Indian
2/125-126
Curlew lodge Mark Wolf Child, Blood
Indian
2/127
Elk or Deer tipi Dan Bull Plume Browning,
Montana
1944
2/128
Rear of Deer or Elk lodge
Blackfoot
June 1945
2/129
Tipis at Little Badger, Montana
July 1942
2/130
Elk or Deer and Person tipi Browning,
Montana
1944
2/131
Donkey tipi (detail) Mary Rides at the Door
given to Julia Wades in the Water
1944
2/132
Eagle tipi Blackfoot
July 1942
2/133-134
Eagle tipi (detail) Wolf Robe, Blood
Indian
2/135
Eagle tipi Wolf Robe, Blood Indian
2/136
Medicine Bundle with Eagle Lodge Wolf Robe,
Blood Indian
2/137
Deer or Elk tipi John Mountain Chief Browning,
Montana
1944
2/138
Elk tipi John Mountain Chief Browning,
Montana
1944
2/139
Elk lodge John and Mary Mountain Chief
Blackfoot
July 1945
2/140
Deer or Elk tipi John Mountain Chief Browning,
Montana
1944
2/141
Fish tipi Tom Many Guns Browning,
Montana
1944
2/142
Mountain Sheep tipi Frank Red Crow, Blood
Indian
2/143
Goat tipi Frank Red Crow, Blood
Indian
2/144
Goat tipi (detail) Frank Red Crow, Blood
Indian
2/145
Mountain Sheep Tipi (detail) Frank Red Crow,
Blood Indian
2/146
Goat tipi Frank Red Crow, Blood
Indian
2/147
Monument to Chief Red Crow (Goat tipi in
background) Frank Red Crow and family
2/148
2 tipis next to monument to Chief Red Crow
Frank Red Crow
2/149
Tipi given to Frank Red Crow, Blood Indian, by
Chewing Black Bones
2/150
Blood Indian tipi
2/151
Medicine Pipe tipi Mrs. Shoots First Browning,
Montana
July 1944
2/152
Moon tipi Owned by Chief Coward Browning,
Montana
1944
2/153
Moon tipi Blackfoot
1944
2/154
Moon tipi Owned by Chief Coward Browning,
Montana
1944
2/155
Medicine Bundle at Moon Lodge Crow Spreads His
Wings
2/156
Medicine Bundle at Moon Tipi Crow Spreads His
Wings
2/157-158
Single Circle Otter tipi (detail) Chewing
Black Bones Browning, Montana
1944
2/159
Single Circle Otter tipi Chewing Black Bones
Browning, Montana
1944
2/160
Single Circle Otter tipi Chewing Black Bones
Blackfoot
July 1942
2/1610
Single Circle Otter tipi Chewing Black Bones
Little Badger, Montana
July 1942
2/162-163
Orange and blue Otter tipi Deer Rider, Blood
Indian
2/164-165
Medicine bundle at Otter tipi Deer Rider,
Blood Indian
2/166
Person lodge Little Badger,
Montana
1944
2/167
Person tipi Mrs. Swims Under Heart Butte,
Montana
1944
2/168
Person tipi Fish Wolf Robe Browning,
Montana
1944
2/169
Person tipi (detail) Fish Wolf Robe Browning,
Montana
1944
2/170
Person tipi Fish Wolf Robe Browning,
Montana
1944
2/171-172
Plume tipi Charlie Iron Breast Browning,
Montana
1944
2/173
Prairie Chicken Lodge Josephine Turtle
Blackfoot
July 1945
2/174
Prairie Chicken tipi Josephine Turtle
Browning, Montana
1944
2/175
Prairie Chicken and Deer tipis
Blackfoot
July 1942
2/176
Tipi Albert Mad Plume Heart Butte,
Montana
1944
2/177
3 tipis Little Badger, Montana
1943
2/178-180
Snake tipi Willie Scraping White, Blood
Indian
2/181-183
Snake tipi (close up) Willie Scraping White,
Blood Indian
2/184
Red Snake tipi Yellow Kidney (Ensima)
Browning, Montana
1944
2/185
Red Snake and Moon tipis Browning,
Montana
1944
2/186-187
Winter tipi Crow Spreads His Wings, Blood
Indian
2/188
Tipi Chief Shot Both Sides, Blood
Indian
2/189
Tipi Chief Shot Both Sides
2/190
Tipi Chief Shot Both Sides, Blood
Indian
2/191
Yellow Tipi George Dog Child
2/192
Yellow tipi George Dog Child, Blood
Indian
2/193-194
Yellow tipi Bull Head (No. Piegan), Blood
Indian
2/195
Tipi Bruised Head, Blood Indian
2/196
Yellow tipi Charlie Good Rider, Blood
Indian
2/197
Tipi, Little Badger, Montana
July 1942
2/198-199
Moccasin Flats, Browning, Montana
March 1944
2/200
Tipis in front of Glacier Park
Lodge
1942
2/201
Blackfeet tipis in front of Glacier Park
Lodge
Summer 1940
2/202
Under Moose tipi (detail) - property of
Glacier Park Blackfoot
July 1, 1945
2/203
Tipi, Glacier Park
July 2, 1945
2/204
Under Moose tipi (detail) property of Glacier
Park
July 2, 1945
2/205
Group of Blackfoot Indians to greet San
Francisco delegation
July 2, 1945
2/206
Theodore Last Star and 2 Feathers in
Hair
2/207
Lt. Commander Mandley being inducted into
tribe, Glacier Park, Montana
July 2, 1945
2/208
Group of inductees with tribal members,
Glacier Park, Montana
July 2, 1945
2/209
Paul Boncour of France being inducted into
tribe, Glacier Park, Montana
July 2, 1945
2/210
Group of inductees with tribal members,
Glacier Park, Montana
July 2, 1945
2/211
Sir A. Ramaswami Modalier, India inducted into
tribe by Running Sun
2/212
Sol Bloom of New York inducted by Buffalo
Chief and Theodore Last Star
2/213-218
Rocky Boy encampment
June 1945
2/219-220
Rocky Boy Town
June 1945
2/221-231
Rocky Boy Sun Dance Lodge
1945
2/232-236
Rocky Boy Sacred Lodge
1945
2/237
Baptise Sammatt
2/238-241
Baptise Sammatt tipi
2/242-244
Baptise Sammatt tipi (fish detail)
2/245-247
Pete Ferel tipi
2/248-250
Pete Ferel tipi detail
2/251-254
Mrs. Left Hand Boy tipi
2/255-257
Mrs. Left Hand Boy tipi (detail)
2/258
Paint skin owned by Reverend Petter of Lame
Deer
1944
2/259-262
Mrs. Lucy Real Bird of Lodge Grass
August 1944
2/263-266
Picture Writing Rock in N.W. North
Dakota
September 1944
2/267-268
Martha Hensley, Henry and Edgar Syverod at
Writing Rock
2/269-270
Ceremonial Ring near Writing Rock