Collection of Photos Showing Pueblo Ceremonies

Silver prints (24); Each 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches; one mounted; With the photographer's credit in the negative, most with manuscript captions verso.

William Thomas Mullarky was a Euro-American photographer from Gallup, New Mexico, who spent several decades documenting the puebloan peoples in the areas surrounding Gallup. He began his career working for the photographer Leo Hetzel, assisting in portrait work and working in the darkroom. In 1927 he established his own studio in Gallup. He was active in the Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonial, and photographed the event prolifically in the period before its more widespread photographing by tourists. the photographs here depict Zuni, Hopi, Cachiti, Apache, Kiowa and Acoma subjects, and are all annotated on the versos. Mullarky sold his negatives along with his shop in 1960, and we find no examples of institutional holdings of his work or large groups of prints surviving, despite his prints turning up from time to time on the secondary market.

Captions include: "Buffalo Dancers;" "Kiowa Indians;" "Kiowa Indians - Okla - ;" "Basket Dance;" "Zuni Basket Dance;" "Zuni Indians;" "Zuni Girls;" "Joe Crazy Horse Zuni Fun Maker;" Apache Devil Dance;" "Cochiti Ind.;" "Cochiti Buffalo Dancers;" "Cochiti Boys;" "Hopi Rainbow Dance;" "Hopi Weaver;" "Acoma Ind. + Mr. Powers;" "Navajo Tug of War;" Zia Crow Dancers;" Intertribal Indian Band;" "Navajo Yeibichai Dance;" "Taos Indians;" and "San Juan Deer Dance."