Stereo View (Paiute Indian Tribe Showing the Wi-geav Featured Head Dress Near the Grand Canyon on the Colorado), Indians of the Colorado Valley, No. 16
Washington, DC: J.W. Powell, 1874. Item #018188
large yellow stereo card very scarce not listed on OCLC, the Bancroft Library has a copy as does the Smithsonian. These were part of the U.S. Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado River of the West" series. The verso of the card identifies it: KAI-VAV-ITS, a tribe of the Pai Utes [sic] living on the Kai-Bab Plateau near the Grand Canon of the Colorado in Northern Arizona Showing the Wi-geav, or Feather Head Dress, Photographed by Hillers (who came to the US. in 1852 from Germany, served in the Civil War with the New York Naval Brigade then with the Western garrisons until 1870. He met John Wesley Powell and was hired as a boatman for the second Powell expedition down the Colorado River in 1871, Hillers became the the chief photographer for Powell on the next Grand Canyon trip. He served as the first staff photographer for the BAE in 1879 until he retired in 1900 though he continued to take photographs for them until 1919. He was the first photographer of the James Stevenson expedition to the Southwest which brought Frank H. Cushing to Zuni.
Price: $175.00