37 color and black-and-white photographic prints, 1
postcard, 1 photographic journal.
Abstract:
Images are of Clara Belle Sekayumptewa Poleviyaoma and
her family, as well as the descendants of Jimmy Kewanwytewa. Other images include
various Navajo and Hopi peoples.
Identification:
NAU.PH.98.38
Language:
Material in English
Repository:
Cline Library. Special Collections and Archives
Department
Northern Arizona University
Box 6022
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6022
Phone: 928 523-5551
Fax: 928 523-3770
Email: special.collections@nau.edu
Historical Note
Clara Belle Sekayumptewa Poleviyaoma, born 1923, lived at Oraibi and Mishongnovi on
the Hopi Reservation. She was skilled in basketry and gave exhibits the last 25
years of her life (1975-2000). She had a son, Jerry, with her first husband, Wally
Sekayumptewa. Wally served in World War II and was a noted silversmith taught by
Fred Kabotie. After divorcing Wally, Clara married Jake Poleviyaoma and moved to his
home in Mishongnovi.
Jimmy Kewanwytewa was well-known in Flagstaff for his work at the Museum of Northern
Arizona. Jimmy K., as he was often called, led tours and carved Kachina dolls. He
worked most of his life for Dr. Harold Colton at the Museum of Northern Arizona.
One summer in the late 1970s Betty Quayle and Ruth Kunkle visited Clara--she was
working at the cultural center on teh Hopi Reservation--she was eager to have some
very big corn plants for her granddaughter to receive from the Home Dance Kachinas.
Clara gave them a red, mother ear, of corn to take to Ruth Kunkle's home at Camp
Verde. Sherman Kunkle planted the corn and the Poleviyaomas visited to check its
progress. Quayle arrived in August and pulled the corn plants at dawn--they were
transplanted to Mishongnovi and used in the Home Dance--a Kachina carried an
enormous arm load of corn plants to Clara's granddaughter.
Scope and Content
Photographs of Clara Belle Sekayumptewa Poleviyaoma and her family, as well as the
descendants of Jimmy Kewanwytewa. Photographs of Navajo and Hopi Native Americans.
Photographs of the Grand Canyon and Cameron, Arizona. Postcards and photographs of
Native Americans.
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Digital versions of parts of this collection are available online herehere.
Photographs of Clara Belle Sekayumptewa and family,
1953-1978.
Photographs of Clara Belle Sekayumptewa Poleviyaoma and her family, as
well as the descendants of Jimmy Kewanwytewa.
NAU.PH.98.38.1: Tuthill, Carr, 1952. Wally and Clara
Sekayumptewa - photo taken by Carr Tuthill when the Quayloes brought
them to see the aquarium [Scripps Aquarium in La Jolla, California],
La Jolla (Calif.). Color Photograph, 15 x 10.
NAU.PH.98.38.2: Quayle, Helen, 1953. Clara Belle, Wally
Sekayumptewa and son Jerry in front of their home at Oraibi on Hopi
Reservation, Oraibi (Ariz.); Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.).
Black-and-White Photograph, 11 x 7.5.
NAU.PH.98.38.3: Quayle, Betty, 1953. Jerry Sekayumptewa -
photo taken at Oraibi in front of his parents' home, [Wally and
Clara Belle], east side of village., Oraibi (Ariz.); Hopi Indian
Reservatiom. Black-and-White Photograph, 11 x 8.
NAU.PH.98.38.4: Quayle, Betty, 1953. Wally, Clara Belle and
Jerry Sekayumptewa in front of their home at Oraibi. Wally was one
of the silversmiths in Fred Kabotie's group. Exhibited at Museum of
Northern Arizona 1950 - 1960s., Oraibi (Ariz.); Hopi Indian
Reservation. Black-and-White Photograph, 8 x 11.5.
NAU.PH.98.38.5: Fronske, ca. 1955. Jimmy Kewanwytewa - Jimmy
worked all his life for Dr. Colton - When the Museum was built, his
home was built in back - noted for his Kachinas. [Title on
postcard:] Jimmy Kewanwytewa, a Hopi Indian. Here he is dressed up
in his best bub and tucker proudly displaying a Kachina doll which
he has carved from a piece of cottonwood drift wood. Jimmy has
gained national recognition in Holiday Magazine for his artistry in
carving and [illegible] these wooden Hopi dolls., Flagstaff (Ariz.).
Postcard, 14 x 9.
NAU.PH.98.38.6: Unidentified, ca. 1965. The family of Andrew
Nutima and Flora Kewanwytewa ,(grandchildren of Jimmy K.) - seven
children, Unidentified. Black-and-White Photograph, 5.5 x 8.
NAU.PH.98.38.7: Quayle, Betty, ca. 1965. 4 grandchildren of
Jimmy Kewanwytewa - parents Flora and Andy Nutima. Photo taken at
Museum of Northern Arizona - Spencer, Jimmy, Billy, and Andy,
Flagstaff (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7.5 x 7.5.
NAU.PH.98.38.8: Quayle, Betty, ca. 1965. Anna Louise Notima
- 7 months, granddaughter of Jimmy Kewanwytewa - parents Andy Nutima
and Flora K. - taken at Museum of Northern Arizona., Flagstaff
(Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7.5 x 7.5.
NAU.PH.98.38.9: Quayle, Betty, ca. 1975. Flora Kewanwytewa -
oldest daughter of Jimmy K. - her husband Andrew Nutima - Andrew as
a WWII vet. Photo taken in Phoenix., Phoenix (Ariz.). Color
Photograph, 8 x 10.5.
NAU.PH.98.38.10: Quayle, Betty, ca. 1978. Clarabelle and
ceremonial corn. Clara Belle Sekayumptewa had divorced Wally and
married Jake Poleviyaoma - lived at Mishongnovi - photo taken at
Camp Verde, home of Sherman Konkle. Her second husband's first name
was Jake - Poleviyaoma. He was from Second Mesa and died in the
1980's. My friend raised some corn for her from a "Mother" ear - she
& Jake came to "sing" to it - it was given to her granddaughter at a
home dance. [See the finding guide for the accompanying story], Camp
Verde (Ariz.). Color Photograph, 14.5 x 10.
Navajo and Hopi Photographs,
1925.
Photographs of Navajo and Hopi people.
Photographic Journal, 1921-1923.
A photographic journal of Grand Canyon and Cameron, Arizona.
