Chemawa Prints Project Day 13

Today I continued to work on the sixth box which I will finish tomorrow. I finished titling through CH 1600. Over the weekend I completed dating for all the metadata.

There were a few errors with labeling - two sets of CH 1541-1560. One of the sets must be CH 1521-1540. There was no metadata for CH 1521-1540, so I relabeled the ids numbers on the prints and titled them. I will fill in the other metadata tomorrow by hand because there is none in the original metadata either. The same case is true for CH 1441-1460; there is no original metadata. I will fill this in tomorrow as well.

Curiously, I found a second print in the same sleeve as CH 1552. This second print is not a duplicate, and I have not come across any metadata for it. I will get a sleeve for it and keep looking for its metadata. If I do not find any then I will add it to the end as CH 3221.

CH 1560 was mislabeled, and I corrected it to CH 1580. The person who went through this box before me wrote on a sticky note that the photo may be mislabeled. They also noted on the box that there were some mistakes with numbering, as I described in the second paragraph. I have noted that I fixed the problems on the sticky notes.

CH 1448 and 1449 are group portraits of students in traditional regalia. The photos list the names of the students on the back. One of them has "Queen" as her title. Do these prints show students at a powwow?

CH 1479 and 1421 show a man who has popped up many times throughout the collection. Who is this man? Is he the superintendent?

CH 1491 and 1491 show students carving a totem pole. Are these the totem poles that stand at the entrance to Chemawa in so many photos? Did the students design the totem poles as well? How many of the totem poles over the years have been carved by students?

CH 1550 stood out to me because it is a beautiful print. It shows young boys making silly faces at the camera.

In CH 1582, two young women play in the snow. On the back is written "Credit: Oregon Statesman." Does this mean that this print is copied from the Oregon Statesman to be put in the yearbook? If so, could I find this photo on the original newspaper? Handwritten is also the date "2-3-63."

1486-1640/3220