Query: *
Archival Materials
Francis Gow-Smith photographs from Mato Grosso, Brazil
Creators:
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Gow-Smith, Francis
Gow-Smith, Francis
Dates:
1926
Size:
41 Negatives (photographic)
17 Copy negatives
17 Copy negatives
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.001.045
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian
Negatives shot by Francis Gow-Smith over the course of eight months of fieldwork in the Mato Grosso state of Brazil in 1926. Gow-Smith was collecting ethnographic material on behalf of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Indigenous communities photographed include the Parecís (Paressi), Nambikuára (Nambicuara) and Borôro (Bororo) peoples.