Object Details
Creator
Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
Scope and Contents
Composite image of Tecumseh or Tecumtha (The One Who Passes Across Intervening Space From One Point To Another) wearing a peace medal, taken from Benson John Lossing's Pictorial Fieldbook of the War of 1812. According to a note by Lossing, he made the "portrait" of Tecumseh from a Pierre le Dru's pencil sketch of his head and cap and a rough drawing showing him in full military dress, made at Malden shortly after the surrender of Detroit. Original engraving published in Benson John Lossing, The Pictorial Fieldbook of the War of 1812, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868, p. 283.
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Local Numbers
NAA INV 06182300 ; OPPS NEG 00770
Local Note
Original Made 1812
Creator
Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
Culture
Shawnee
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Extent
1 Glass negative (004 in x 005 in mounted on 008 in x 010 in)
Date
undated
Archival Repository
National Anthropological Archives
Identifier
NAA.PhotoLot.176, Item BAE GN 00770 06182300
Type
Archival materials
Glass negatives
NAA.PhotoLot.176_ref1195
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Record ID
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