Nina,

Dioramas of "vanishing cultures" were often produced using photographs
involving the participation of the peoples involved; there are some interesting
examples and records of this use of photography in the following book:

"DRAWING SHADOWS TO STONE : THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE JESUP NORTH PACIFIC
EXPEDITION, 1897-1902," published in 1997 by the American Museum of Natural History,
New York.

From the inside cover flap:

"The men and women of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition used the camera to
record what they believed to be vanishing cultures. These photographs became
the fixed and frozen images of cultural forms, stereotypic representations that
were sometimes reproduced in museum dioramas. Thomas Ross Miller and Barbara
Mathe examine how early anthropologists saw their task and how they used
photographs as cultural and biological data, as documentation of places, events, and
artifacts, and as models for future exhibits. A gallery of sixty photographs
follows a brief history of the Jesup Expedition and an illustrated essay on
the making and interpretation of these images."

Good luck,

Allan

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