Object Details
Creator
Eastman, Seth
Engraver
Smillie, James
sova.naa.photolot.176_ref8445
Local Numbers
OPPS NEG.3705
Local Note
Eastman made a pencil sketch and oil painting of this subject while at Fort Snelling (McDermott, page 60; oil painting has never been located). Eastman made a water color (completed by 1851) based on the sketch; this water color was made for the engraving in Schoolcraft's Indian Tribes of the United States (volume 2, plate 28).
Black and white copy negative
Topic
Sioux
Creator
Eastman, Seth
Engraver
Smillie, James
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
Genre/Form
Photographs
Existence and Location of Originals
The water color is now in the James Jerome Hill Reference Library, Saint Paul (Frances Densmore, "The Collection of Water-Color Drawings of the North American Indian by Seth Eastman in the James Jerome Hill Reference Library," 1954, pages 14-15).
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Record ID
ebl-1628267668517-1628267670937-3