Joseph Jacinta Mora - Hopi Indian photographs, 1904-1906

Collection

Identifier: 1976-007

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Consists of 140 sepia-toned photographic prints and 27 black and white photographic prints (originally housed in a 3-ring binder labeled "Western Art Productions, Inc. Jo Mora's Watercolor Collections of Hopi Kachina & Ceremonial Figures"). All photographs were produced from the original negatives taken by Mora from 1904 through 1906. Many of these photographs appear in The Year of the Hopi: Paintings and Photographs by Joseph Mora, 1904-06 (Smithsonian Institution: Washington, DC, 1979), the companion book to a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1979-1981. The photographs in this collection retain the numbering system given them for the Smithsonian exhibition and are arranged chronologically. The page on which a photograph appears in The Year of the Hopi: Paintings and Photographs by Joseph Mora, 1904-06 is noted in ( ). Exhibit/book captions appear in italics.

Dates

1904 - 1906

Creator

Mora, Joseph Jacinto, 1876-1947 (Photographer, Person)

Language

These materials have no linguistic content.

Access

This material is open for research use by any registered reader. This material is housed off-site and will require advance notice of 1 business day for use.

Use and Copyright

This material is owned by the University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections. To respect the strong feelings the Hopi Tribe has expressed concerning publication of photographs depicting ceremonies, Northern Arizona University has agreed to refer requests for duplication of images of Hopi religious ceremonies to the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office. The Wilson gift is administered by the Special Collections and Archives Department at the Cline Library, Northern Arizona University, P.O. Box 6022, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6022.

Biographical / Historical

Joseph “Jo” Jacinto Mora was a sculptor, photographer, painter, illustrator, muralist and author. He was born in Uruguay in 1876. After moving to the United States, he studied art in the East and worked for Boston newspapers as an artist. In 1904 he moved to Keams Canyon, living with the Hopi and Navajo Indians. He learned the languages and photographed and painted an ethnological record, particularly of the Kachina ceremonial dances. In 1907 he established a studio in Pebble Beach, California. He published two books, TRAIL DUST AND SADDLE LEATHER and CALIFORNIOS. Mora died in Monterey, California in 1947.

Extent

1.5 Linear Feet (140 photographs, c.22.5 x 34 cm. (majority) in 3 boxes. )

Additional Description

Physical Location

Collection shelved at off-site storage.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift

Related Materials

These materials are administered by the Special Collections and Archives Department at the Cline Library, Northern Arizona University, P.O. Box 6022, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6022.