Object Details
Creator
Eastman, Seth
Engraver
Wagstaff, C. E.
Andrews, J.
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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.
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Record ID
ebl-1628267668517-1628267670936-2