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Creator:
Saint-Mémin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de, 1770-1852  Search this
Extent:
1 Photograph (8x10 in)
Culture:
Numakiki (Mandan)  Search this
Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Scope and Contents:
He wears his hair banged and long behind, his ear is mutilated and the earring is a silver wheel. Inscribed in St Memin's handwriting"Indien des Iowas des Missouri."
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.3924 C
General:
Identified as Mandan Chief Shahaka by Ellen G. Miles in Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America (1994). Although he is identified as an Indian of the Iowas of the Missouri in the inscription, the watercolor referenced below is inscribed "Mandan King."
Local Note:
A watercolor of this subject, also by St Memin, was once owned by Luke Vincent Lockwood. The portrait is the same with the exception of the dress, the watercolor showing only a portion of a buffalo skin over one shoulder. See New York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin, April 1928 - Figure 9, and "The St Memin Indian Portraits," by Luke Vincent Lockwood, Member American Antiquarian Society. (Figure 8). The watercolor is now at the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art.
Black and white copy negative
Restrictions:
Credit to be given to the New York Historical Society if published. See correspondence Smithsonian Institution Files, 6/4/24.
Genre/Form:
Photographs
See more items in:
Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Saint-Mémin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de, 1770-1852
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3a15e17e2-122d-478f-ba1c-c25213a61512
EDAN-URL:
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