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Alvert Samehumgva
Object Number 45-30-10/100536.1.6
Display Title Alvert Samehumgva
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Hopi. Arizona. / Albert Sa-Me-Humg-Va. Hopi, Old Oraibi, Arizona, Aug. 1939. "Albert" "The last Hopi boy who had his hair done with the Hoin-so-mi style. He also wears the feather. Albert is also a "goodbye" to all that is best of a now fast vanishing Indian life; in another generation they will no longer be Indians. 1939."
Keywords
  • Proper Name
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Boy
Department Photographic
Date 1939
Artist Woltz
Culture
  • Hopi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona / Navajo County / Hopi Reservation / Third Mesa / Oraibi
Additional Geographic Terms Third Mesa
Materials Sepia Print adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 17.15 x 27.94 cm (6 3/4 x 11 in.)

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