Most of the photographs in the Photographic Archives are candid shots of people and situations with minimum intervention of the photographer. A few of the photographs, however, are portraits. Some of these photographs are shown here.

A striking feature is the diversity. While we think of America as a diverse nation, can it match the diversity seen here? It ultimately raises the question: what were the cultural, social and political forces that that could foster, or merely just allow, such diversity?

Included in this set of photographs is a photograph of Ldamie taken in the 1930s by Etta Becker-Donner, the Austrian ethnologist. The next is Ldamie with three wives. Father said he traveled upriver to obtain the bronze statues.

In looking at all of the photographs, please notice items of dress and adornment in these photographs which also appear in either the Ldamie figures, or in the ethnographic items of the Walter Logan Fry Collection.

- W. Logan Fry