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"Sioux Indians Playing the Game of Plum Stones"

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"Sioux Indians Playing the Game of Plum Stones"
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Object Details

Creator

Eastman, Seth

Engraver

Wagstaff, C. E.
Andrews, J.
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GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw31f6aebf0-311e-4078-94ec-4546ac75b648

Local Numbers

OPPS NEG.2860 HH 2

Local Note

Eastman made a water color of this subject based on the Fort Snelling pencil sketch about 1850 or 1851; this water color was made for the engraving in Schoolcraft's Indian Tribes of the United States (volume 2, plate 18); the water color has never been located (McDermott, page 86).
Black and white copy negative

Topic

Sioux

Creator

Eastman, Seth

Engraver

Wagstaff, C. E.
Andrews, J.

Culture

Dakota -- Mdewakanton
Indians of North America -- Great Plains
Sioux

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Biographical / Historical

Bushnell, SMC, volume 87, number 3, 1932, page 8, states that the Dakota Indians sketched and painted by Eastman at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, 1841-1848, were Mdewakanton

Extent

1 Photograph (8x10 in)

Date

1852

Archival Repository

National Anthropological Archives

Type

Archival materials
Photographs

Bibliography

Pencil sketch reproduced in McDermott, plate 50.

Genre/Form

Photographs

Existence and Location of Originals

Eastman made a sketch and oil painting of this subject while at Fort Snelling (McDermott, page 60); the oil painting has never been located; the original sketch with the above penciled title is now in the Bushnell Collection, Peabody Museum, Harvard University. (Whatmough, Bushnell Catalogue, page 11, cat. numbers 84 and 84a.
NAA.PhotoLot.176_ref8438
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Record ID

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