Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Date:
1913
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.72580
Local Note:
Name literally means Playful Calf or Tse-zhin-ga-wa-da-in-ga.
"Saucy Calf (Osage), Pawhuska, Okla." apparently written on negative.
Indian and alternate names, date and photographer obtained from catalog information on negative number 4137-B-3, an original negative which was no doubt the source of this copy.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Date:
1936
Biographical / Historical:
Louis Bearchild (?) lived at Starr School in the northern part of the Blackfoot Reservation, Montana, in the 1940's. He was listed as a full blood in the Blackfoot Reservation Census of December 31, 1939, which gives his age as 50 years. He was living when I last visited the reservation in the summer of 1947. -- Information furnished by Mr Ewers, U.S. National Museum, January 1949.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Date:
1936
Biographical / Historical:
Louis Bearchild (?) lived at Starr School in the northern part of the Blackfoot Reservation, Montana, in the 1940's. He was listed as a full blood in the Blackfoot Reservation Census of December 31, 1939, which gives his age as 50 years. He was living when I last visited the reservation in the summer of 1947. -- Information furnished by Mr Ewers, U.S. National Museum, January 1949.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Date:
1936
Biographical / Historical:
A biographical sketch of James White Calf submitted in January, 1949 by Mr Ewers: "James White Calf, full blood Piegan, older brother of Two Guns White Calf, and son of White Calf, the last principal chief of the south Piegan. The elder White Calf died in Washington, D.C. in 1903. "James White Calf went on horse stealing raids in his youth and counted coup. He was still living on the Blackfoot reservation, Montana in 1947. According to the Blackfoot reservation census of December 31, 1939, he was then 76 years of age. "In the 1940's James White Calf owned the yellow buffalo lodge, one of the oldest and probably the handsomest of the Blackfoot painted tipis."
Note from Mr John C. Ewers 4-27-53. These photos are definitely representations of James White Calf, son of White Calf, last recognized chief of the Blackfoot (Piegan) in Montana. According to the Blackfeet Reservation Census of 1908, James was then 44 years of age. That census records his father's name - White Calf; his mother's - Black Snake. I do not know whether or not he was the grandson of Big Snake, although it is probable, since my Indian informants stated that his father married 2 of Big Snake's daughters. However, one informant claimed James was the son of White Calf by still another wife. James White Calf was still living in 1951 on the Blackfeet Reservation. I saw him that summer. He was then one of the last surviving Piegan men who had taken part in intertribal warfare (ie. horse raids). His brother was Two Guns White Calf, now dead, a very picturesque Indian. You have photos of him also.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.9212800
OPPS NEG.423 C 1
Local Note:
These photographs were originally identified as follows: "Sh-ko'-i-na-max'ha - Last Gun Chief. Known to the Whites as White Calf. Grandson of the famous chief Big Snake."These photographs were identified by J.C. Ewers (4-27-53) as being "definitely representations of James White Calf."
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Date:
1936
Biographical / Historical:
A biographical sketch of James White Calf submitted in January, 1949 by Mr Ewers: "James White Calf, full blood Piegan, older brother of Two Guns White Calf, and son of White Calf, the last principal chief of the south Piegan. The elder White Calf died in Washington, D.C. in 1903. "James White Calf went on horse stealing raids in his youth and counted coup. He was still living on the Blackfoot reservation, Montana in 1947. According to the Blackfoot reservation census of December 31, 1939, he was then 76 years of age. "In the 1940's James White Calf owned the yellow buffalo lodge, one of the oldest and probably the handsomest of the Blackfoot painted tipis."
Note from Mr John C. Ewers 4-27-53. These photos are definitely representations of James White Calf, son of White Calf, last recognized chief of the Blackfoot (Piegan) in Montana. According to the Blackfeet Reservation Census of 1908, James was then 44 years of age. That census records his father's name - White Calf; his mother's - Black Snake. I do not know whether or not he was the grandson of Big Snake, although it is probable, since my Indian informants stated that his father married 2 of Big Snake's daughters. However, one informant claimed James was the son of White Calf by still another wife. James White Calf was still living in 1951 on the Blackfeet Reservation. I saw him that summer. He was then one of the last surviving Piegan men who had taken part in intertribal warfare (ie. horse raids). His brother was Two Guns White Calf, now dead, a very picturesque Indian. You have photos of him also.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.9212900
OPPS NEG.423 C 2
Local Note:
These photographs were originally identified as follows: "Sh-ko'-i-na-max'ha - Last Gun Chief. Known to the Whites as White Calf. Grandson of the famous chief Big Snake."These photographs were identified by J.C. Ewers (4-27-53) as being "definitely representations of James White Calf."
Photographs of Native Americans and Other Subjects
Creator:
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Search this
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology Search this
Extent:
18,000 Items (ca. 18,000 items)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographs
Negatives
Prints
Works of art
Printed material
Date:
1840s-1960s
Scope and Contents:
The collections consists mostly of original and copy prints. There are also some negatives, artwork, photographs of artwork, and printed materials. Included is a large miscellany of ethnological, historical, and some archaeological subjects collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology from a wide variety of sources. To these have been added some photographs and other illustrative material acquired and sometimes accessioned by the Department of Anthropology of the United States National Museum/National Museum of Natural History. There are also prints of photographs from the archives' collection of glass negatives of Indians and the subject and geographic file. Although most of the material relates to North America, some images relating to historical events and to areas outside North America are included.
The relationship beween this collection and the National Anthropological Archives series of numbered manuscripts is close, for many of the accessions to the photographic collection were originally described in the catalog to the numbered manuscripts and are, hence, identified by a manuscript number. Today, the archives treat the two collections as separate entities, however, because there has been so much interfiling of uncatalog images among those with the manuscript numbers.
Arrangement:
The arrangement is complicated: (1) America north of Mexico, divided by geographic region and tribe based on George P. Murdock and Timothy J. O'Leary's scheme in Ethnographic Bilbiography of North America, 1975. The material is further subdivided by the organization that acted in the past as repository (Bureau of American Ethnology, United States National Museum [Department of Anthropology], National Museum of Natural History [Department of Anthropology], Smithsonian Office of Anthropology, and National Anthropological Archives). Thereunder it is divided into catalog unit or comparable categories generally based on provenance; (2) miscellany, historical and unidentified; (3) archaeology, arranged by geographic area; (4) Latin America; (5) material which did not lend itself to classification in categories given above and is identified by National Anthropological Archives catalog numbers.
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Negatives
Prints
Works of art
Printed material
Citation:
Photo lot 24, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
