Here’s another image where online searching yielded some interesting information.  I didn’t find anything on who she was or what the “toil” was.  I suspect she was sowing seeds, but that’s conjecture, at best.  (Cross-posted from Haw Creek Reflections)

Moki pueblos, Arizona (between 1898 and 1905)
Detroit Publishing Co. no. “51208”;
photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
Library of Congress image

Launched as a photographic publishing firm in the late 1890s, The Detroit Photographic Company, later the Detroit Publishing Company, obtained exclusive right for use of the Swiss “Photochrom” process. This process permitted the mass production of color postcards, prints, and albums for sale to the American market. In 1897, landscape photographer, William Henry Jackson, joined the firm, adding Jackson’s thousands of negatives to the photographic inventory.

While looking for more information on this image, I found a larger digital version, from which the image above was cropped and colorized. The image background is also altered on the photochrom version, making it more dramatic.

The title inked on the glass plate and penciled on the negative envelope reads:

Moki pueblo, patient toil

Image is from an 8 x 10 in. glass negative archived at the Denver Public Library.  It’s attributed to William Henry Jackson.

Description: “View of a Native American (Hopi) woman and a boy on the Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona. The woman wears a dress and a shawl and has a fabric strap balanced on her head to support a fabric bundle with probably a baby inside. She holds a cup in her hands. A boy wears a shirt and pants with suspenders. Rocky mesas are in the distance.”

It turns out that both images were in the Detroit Photographic inventory as early as 1899.

An 1899 Detroit Photographic catalog lists Moki Pueblo. Patient Toil with the number 05710, the same title and number inked on the black and white glass plate.  It is included in Part II which includes plain photographs and hand colored photographs.  The other photo, with the catalog number 51208, is included in Part I under Aäc Color Photography. Describing it, the catalog says, “The Aäc Process of Color Photography is the only successful means yet known of producing directly without the aid of hand color work, a photograph in the colors of nature.” Aäc is another term for photochrom.

Haw Creek Reflections provides background information and links for images used for products in our Zazzle store.

Products with this image at Zazzle

Additional Information

Hopi

• The Hopi Tribe: Loloma (Hello) – tribal website
• Wikipedia
• Hopi Cultural Preservation
• Hopi Cultural Center, Motel and Restaurant
• Hopi –  Colorado Plateau – Land Use History of North America
• The Hopi Foundation
• Shungopavi Village on Facebook
• Restoration
• Experience Hopi – The Upper Village of Moenkopi & Moenkopi Developers Corporation (MDC)
• Encyclopedia Britannica

American Indians

• National Congress of American Indians
• National Museum of the American Indian
• Indians.org
• American Indian College Fund
• Native Americans in the United States (Wikipedia)
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas (Wikipedia)
• and more from Google search on American Indian

Sometimes, the search for additional information for an old photo yields little.  Sometimes it yields a bit more, but poses more questions.  Sometimes, some of the questions are answered.

For this search, I started with an image, the first one below, and a name, Ben Long Ear.  The image is one that I am using for Zazzle products.  For each image, I try to locate additional information beyond what is readily available at the original source, usually Library of Congress.  (This post has been crossposted from Haw Creek Reflections.)

A pair of old pictures, rather than being worth the proverbial thousand words each, leave more questions than answers.

Who was this man? What tribe? Who was his family?  Where did they live? Why was he imprisoned? How long was he in? to mention just a few.

Half-length portrait, facing front;
Photo created about 1905 by Edward S. Curtis.
Library of Congress image.

Ben Long Ear was born about 1875.  On December 16, 1886, age 13, he arrived at the famed Carlisle Indian Industrial School where he was supposed stay 5 years, until he was 18.  He was sent home, departing Carlisle September 17, 1890, according to his Carlisle Descriptive and Historical Record of Student. Follow-up information shows that he was a farmer in 1910 and 1913.

In the 1893, Annual report of the commissioner of Indian affairs, Benjamin Long Ears is recorded as a cooper’s apprentice.

A Spokane Daily Chronicle article, January 10, 1906, relates an “elopement” of Ben Long Ear, son of Chief Big Medicine, with Mrs. Crooked Arm, both married to others. In related articles in other papers, United States authorities are said to be looking for the runaways. (Other sources indicate that he was Big Medicine’s son-in-law, husband of Grace Big Medicine.)

Indians Who Eloped Charged With Bigamy

Cody, Wyo. April 2 – Ben Long Ear and Mrs. Crooked Arm, the Crow buck and squaw who eloped from the Crow agency in January, have been returned to the reservation by officers.

When they left the agency, Mrs. Crooked Arm took her little papoose and $300 of her husband’s money.  Crooked Arm said he didn’t care for the money, but wanted his papoose back.  Mrs. Long Ear, who was deserted, says she still loves her husband and will gladly take him back.

The couple will be tried on the charge of bigamy.  Long Ear is ill from exposure in evading arrest.

In trouble with federal authorities in 1906 and a farmer in 1910 and 1913. What happened after that?

Ben Long Ear,  Inmate #2454, 1914
McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary, Washington
National Archives image.

Did this man commit crimes that actually harmed others?  Were his offenses a result of indigenous people running up against the morality of the newcomers to the land?  Was he railroaded so that others could take some advantage?

It appears that the answer may be murder.

Joseph discusses how Indian policeman, including Fire Bearer, were expected to control alcohol during prohibition cattle rustlers, such as Garvin, convicted murderers, such as Ben Long Ears, and horse thieves, such as Cherokee Cherry Adams. (Summary of oral interview of Joseph Medicine Crow)

Haw Creek Reflections provides background information and links for images used for products in our Zazzle store.

Products with this image on Zazzle.

Additional Information

Crow People

• Crow Nation – Official Site of the Apsaalooke’ Nation
• Crow Nation (Wikipedia)
• Montana Governor’s Office of Indian Affairs
• and more from Google search on Crow Indians

American Indians

• National Congress of American Indians
• National Museum of the American Indian
• Indians.org
• American Indian College Fund
• Native Americans in the United States (Wikipedia)
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas (Wikipedia)
• and more from Google search on American Indian

One of our big pines lost its top on June 12, 2011.

It was either snapped off by wind or hit by lightning.  Whatever caused it, it left a mess on the ground to clean up.

The next year, 2012, was the dry year where, to conserve water, water system customers were told not to do any outside watering.  We lost several trees from the drought. The big pine, already stressed from the damage in 2001, probably succumbed due to the drought conditions.  From its rings, the tree was well over 60 years old.

After the old pine was cut down, portions of the trunk were used to create several log planters.

I created a short video of felling the tree.  I used a bit of a different technique this time and the tree fell very close to where I planned, even if I did get a whack on the head.

It looks like we may be in for some heavy rain over the next couple of days.  The ground is still saturated from the rain from the 9th.  We’re in a flash flood watch.

Is your recent weather, compared to normal, drier, wetter, or just right?

Sunday was our first time in the storm shelter this year.  A little after 5 PM, both of cell phones started ringing.  The only time that happens is when there is a tornado warning in our area.

Karen had most of the stuff she usually carries to the shelter already  in a tote bag.  I wasn’t quite as ready – not at all prepared, in fact –  but most of what I grab is normally close together.

Laptop, two external hard-drives – both drives have all of my digital photos – , laptop power cord, wallet, phone…

All set.  Wait…. wearing shorts, so grabbed a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt jacket.

We made it to the shelter before the sirens down in the valley started sounding.  We get our alerts from Channel 7 meteorologists in Little Rock almost as fast as the National Weather Service declares a tornado warning.  That actually gives us extra time.  We’re generally in the shelter before the sirens go.

Our shelter is actually inside.  It’s nice and clean.  While it has a light and an electrical outlet, we take a LED lantern with us, since we won’t have power if we are hit by a tornado.

No tornado resulted from that storm cell and the main part of it tracked west of us.  We were in the shelter for about 20 minutes.

Unfortunately, about 50 or so miles to our east, another storm cell turned extremely violent about 2 hours later.

A destructive tornado was produced, with the tornado tracking through Mayflower and Vilonia (both in Faulkner County) before apparently dissipating (according to radar) near El Paso (White County). The tornado has been given a preliminary rating of at least EF3 (136-165 mph winds). (National Weather Service) (Update 4/30/2014: The National Weather Service says the Mayflower/Villonia tornado was a high end EF4.  There’s only been 1 EF5 recorded in Arkansas, so this storm was one of the very strongest ever in the state.)

The image above is some of what Interstate 40 travelers would see of Mayflower, Arkansas, before Sunday, April 27.  The business was Mayflower RV. The same location is seen on the right, from a camera on a drone, very shortly after the tornado rolled through.

A week ago, I posted Tornado Season?, talking about the weak start for 2014, among other things.

In the last few  days there has been over 100 tornadoes and it looks like there will more before this system dies away.  Even so, the number of tornadoes is only 42% of the average annual trend for this point in the year.

I made a weather related forecast in the Tornado Season? post.  I wrote:

My forecast: If an extensive tornado outbreak occurs or if there are tornadoes that cause widespread significant damage, there will be attempts to connect them to climate change and/or global warming.

It didn’t take long.

A Google search on the words tornado and warming for the period of yesterday and today yields multiple stories connecting this single tornado track and the later outbreaks elsewhere to global warming.

Even the IPCC doesn’t go that far.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), there is “high agreement” among leading experts that long-term trends in weather disasters are not due to human-caused climate change.

Storm chaser Brian Emfinger used a drone to get the following video of damage at Mayflower soon after the tornado hit there.  Interstate 40 in that area has a two-way access road on the east side of the interstate.  (Warning – the volume ramps up suddenly part way through the video.)

A little over 2 weeks ago we visited Garvan Woodland Gardens near Hot Springs, Arkansas.  This was our second visit to the Gardens and will certainly visit it again in the future. For those who enjoy botanical gardens, Garvan is a treat, with its setting in the woodlands on a peninsula stretching out into a scenic lake.

I incorporated most of my photos and video clips into a 4 minute video – including intro and closing credits.  I’ve also developed an information page on Garvan Woodland Gardens which will be listed with other info pages I’ve created along with pages from other blogs on Haw Creek Destinations.

On our first visit to Garvan, we didn’t have any water or snack with us and regretted it.  On this visit, we were better prepared and, because of that, were able to cover more ground – not that we were hurrying.  We explored for several hours, took plenty of pictures, and still didn’t see all of the gardens.

The 1925 Tri-State tornado accounted for 695 deaths in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.

The highest recorded tornado wind speed was a 1999 Oklahoma storm that clocked 302 mph.

Oklahoma City has seen over 100 known tornado strikes.

Three out of every four tornadoes on Earth occur in the United States.

Currently in what is normally peak tornado season,  the United States is experiencing a year with an unusually low number of tornadoes. Greg Carbin, the man in charge at NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center (SPC) says it’s “likely the slowest start to tornado activity in any year in the modern record, and possibly nearly a century!”

The previous two years, 2012 and 2013, were both below average tornado years.

From what I gather, our low number of tornadoes is likely a result of the colder than normal winter some parts of the country is struggling to get out of.

I’m not a meteorologist.  However, I can make a weather related forecast that I’m fairly confident of.

My forecast: If an extensive tornado outbreak occurs or if there are tornadoes that cause widespread significant damage, there will be attempts to connect them to climate change and/or global warming.

That seems  the pattern lately.  If there’s a weather related calamity, blame global warming.

The widest tornado in recorded history, the 2013 El Reno tornado, occurred over rural areas of central Oklahoma on May 31, 2013.  The tornado was measured by radar at 2.6 miles (4.2 km) wide. It’s size confused observers, its mammoth proportions containing orbiting subvortices larger than average tornadoes.  It was a worst case scenario for storm chaser teams – abrupt changes in direction, rapid forward acceleration from about 20 mph to as high as 55 mph. Several professional and amateur chasers were impacted.  Three died:  Tim Samaras, an autodidact engineer who founded a field research team called Tactical Weather Instrumented Sampling in Tornadoes EXperiment (TWISTEX) which sought to better understand tornadoes, Paul Samaras, Tim’s son (photographer and videographer) and Carl Young (meteorologist).  The three were the first fatalities ever related to storm chaser activities.

Photo attribution:
licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license – Attribution: Justin1569 at en.wikipedia

Mesocyclone tornado NOAA

Radar Reflectivity of a tornado-producing supercell south of Tipton, OK November 2011; National Weather Service

Tim Samaras’ work was funded in large part by the National Geographic Society which awarded him 18 grants for his field work.

While reviewing blogs posts for Destinations, a collection on Haw Creek of descriptions, reviews and photo or video tours of interesting places, primarily in the United States, I came across a couple of interesting videos.

Jason and Nikki Wynn of Gone with the Wynns are, in their own words, a “quirky couple who traded in everyday life to satisfy their wear-out-your-shoes sense of adventure.”

In Virginia City, Nevada, Nikki took a ride with Gary Teel.

The Wynn’s post on Yuma Territorial Prison triggered a memory of a television show from my childhood.  The Yuma prison was featured or mentioned in many books, movies and TV shows over the years, but the show I remembered was about a person, Johnny Yuma, The Rebel, not the prison.This episode, from 1959, was the series première.

For me, as a seven-year-old, the show was a shoot-em-up western with a twist.  I knew about the civil war, I suppose, but didn’t really appreciate the context in this show .  Now, at sixty-two, with considerable reading on the impact of our civil war, I have a deeper appreciation of the time the show is set in  and the background of the character.

It was interesting to see Dan Blocker in a more sinister role than that of  “Hoss” Cartwright.

The windows were open.

We had just checked the weather online.  Our county was under a severe thunderstorm warning.  A potent line of thunderstorms ahead of an advancing cold front was moving in our direction.  One warning reported winds as high as 70 miles per hour were possible near thunderstorms.

We started hearing thunder. Lightning flashed.  Wind picked up quickly and began to howl.

To keep the coming rain out, Karen, sitting at her computer, stood up and closed the window in front of her… and the lights went out.

Time to get the flashlights  and LED lantern out.

It was 9:45 PM or so and very dark.  The worst of the storm passed by very quickly, though it rained heavily for a while.  We decided not to run the generator as it was almost bedtime, assuming that power would be back by the time we got up in the morning.

It wasn’t.

The generator was on and supplying power for about 4 hours this morning before power restoration, a little over 12 hours after we lost it.

We were luckier than some.  I took a short drive this morning to see if I could spot why our power was still out.  I saw a number of trees toppled and snapped, including a big pine that landed on the corner of a house.

So I’m in the process of going through Google image search finding interesting Arkansas related photos to pin on my Arkansas Pinterest page and I come across this one titled Red Sox players on hunting expedition….

Really?

The full title on Flickr is Red Sox players on hunting expedition, Spring Training, Hot Springs, Arkansas. 

I had just been reminded recently that some major league baseball teams had held spring training in Hot Springs in the early part of the 20th century and, sure enough, this photo is from 1907.

Shared on Flickr by Boston Public Library, the photo description says: “Tommy Madden dressed as a Native American, Bill Carrigan (center) and an unidentified player dressed as cowboys, pose on burros during rabbit hunt.”

Funny, I don’t think the term Native American was in use in 1907.  I wonder what the original title was.

I’m not a big fan of baseball or any other sport.  However, I do like interesting photos with a history… as well as those with a twist.

The Flickr image is here.  It is also in the Massachusetts Collections online here.