Secretary Adams at Signing Ceremony NMAI
ID: 89-8343-11or 89-8343.11
Creator: Minor-Penland, Laurie
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1989
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder: September 1994 and Accession 92-076, Box 28
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Ninth Smithsonian Secretary (1984-1994) Robert McCormick Adams (1926- ), signs Memorandum of Understanding with Museum of American Indian (MAI), Heye Foundation, transferring its superb collection of American Indian artifacts to Smithsonian at ceremony on May 8, 1989, overlooking the site of the hoped-for new National Museum of the American Indian to be built on the Mall in Washington to house Heye Foundation Collection. Looking on left to right: Suzan Harjo, member of board of trustees, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York City; Roland Force, director MAI; Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI), chief support of legislation to create NMAI within SI; Dick Baker, member Lakota Sioux Red Feather Society; Congressman Ben Nighthorse Campbell (D-CO), only American Indian member in Congress.
Subject
- Adams, Robert McCormick 1926-2018
- Force, Roland W
- National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
- National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) George Gustav Heye Center
- United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
- United States Congress
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes
In Torch September 1994
Contained within
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder: September 1994 and Accession 92-076, Box 28
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
1989
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Topic
- Secretariats
- Harjo, Suzan
- Secretaries
- Inouye, Daniel K
- Historians
- New Museums
- Museums
- Campbell, Ben Nighthorse
- Baker, Dick
- Indians of North America--Museums
- Museum directors
Place
Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)
Form/Genre
- Photographic print
- Group, candid
ID Number
89-8343-11or 89-8343.11
Physical description
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print