On display through March 25, 2022, “FOCUSED: A Century of Virginia Indian Resilience” was principally a photographic exhibition drawing from collections held by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, as well as images from anthropologist Frank Speck in 1910s to 1930s, the work of award-winning Baltimore Sun photographer A. Aubrey Bodine in the 1940s and 1950s, and portraits by contemporary American Indian photographers.
Paul Miles and Union Collins with canoe, 1922. Frank Speck photograph collection, N11864; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
In 1919, Pamunkey Indian couple Nannie and Paul Miles, along with an unidentified child and Union Ottaway Collins holding a dog, posed on the front porch of a house on the Pamunkey Reservation in Virginia. Frank Speck photograph collection, N12730; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Chief George M. Cook by the Pamunkey River, 1918. Frank Speck photograph collection, N12574; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Outdoor Rappahannock sugar mill, with the cane being crushed by a horse team, 1919. Frank Speck photograph collection, N12708; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Five young Mattaponi boys, 1918. Frank Speck photograph collection, N12805. National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Young Chickahominy girl, 1919. Frank Speck photograph collection, N12623. National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Chickahominy man and son holding a splint basket, 1918. Frank Speck photograph collection, N12644. National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
George M. Cook and Bob Nelson, Indian Neck, Virginia, 1920. Frank Speck photograph collection, N12692. National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Portrait of Mollie Adams, Upper Mattaponi, 1918. Frank Speck photograph collection, N12647; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Turkey Feather Mantle, circa 1930s by Mollie Adams, Upper Mattaponi. Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation collection.
Detail of Turkey Feather Mantle, circa 1930s by Mollie Adams, Upper Mattaponi. Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation collection.
