Pictures taken in the 1950's while Bill Shipley was working on the Maidu language with Maym Gallagher.
Date(s): December 23, 2009. Album by Michael Shipley. Photos by Nata Piaskovsky. 1 - 38 of 38 Total. 1461 Visits.
1 Bill Shipley working on Maidu with Maym Gallagher.
2 Bill Shipley in Payne's Creek, 1950's
3 Maym, Bill, Grandma Benner and Dan Williams, the last true Maidu shaman.
4 Lena Benner, Maym's mother
5 Lena Benner
6 Dan Williams, the last Maidu shaman.
7 Bill and Jerry, together for many years.
8 Maym, Lena and Bill
9 Bill Shipley with Nata Piaskowsky, holocaust survivor, photographer of these black and whites and friend of Ansel Adams.
10 The Benner house in Payne's Creek, 1950's. Bill in the doorway.
11 Bill hanging out.
12 Bill Shipley, Beverly Ogle, Ken Holbrook, Ken Benner and Michael Shipley. Beverly and Ken Benner are the children of Maym Gallgher who taught Bill Maidu. Ken Holbrook is Beverly's son.
13 Michael recording women's drum circle in Tasmam Koyom for a song he wrote about his father and the Maidu people. Hum Ku.
14 Beverly Ogle, her son Ken Holbrook and Bill Shipley in Tasmam Koyom, the valley where Bevelry and Ken's Maidu ancestors lived.
15 Michael and Beverly in Tasmam Koyom. "Two of my very favorite pe..." View Comments...
16 Godparents
17 Tasmam Koyom (Humbug Valley) in the morning.
18 Tasmam Koyom (Humbug Valley) in the morning.
19 Tasmam Koyom (Humbug Valley) in the morning.
20 Yellow Creek in Tasmam Koyom
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34 Maym Gallagher, Grandma Benner and Bill Shipley in the 1950's.
35 Mayam Gallagher, Grandma Benner and Bill Shipley at Paynes Creek in the 1950's.
36 With Ken Holbrook from article in Mother Jones.
