Portrait of Assiniboin man, Wets It, a chief

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Object Details

Scope and Contents

Wets It: an Assiniboin of Fort Peck Reservation, Montana. According to his stepson (Joshua Wetsit) he had an excellent war record, was leader of the Assiniboin delegation to Omaha Exposition. Father of Joshua Wets It, informant to J.C. Ewers, 1953.

sova.naa.photolot.176_ref6633

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw35b1d053e-081f-4fe0-a327-28d197d88a51

Local Numbers

NAA INV 9988200 ; OPPS NEG 3718 B

Local Note

[In Negative 3747] Wetsit wears a replica of his war medicine bonnet, captured in war by the Piegan, some years earlier. [Information from J.C. Ewers]

Place

Nebraska Omaha

Culture

Assiniboine (Stoney)

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Extent

1 Glass negative (5x7 in)

Date

1898

Archival Repository

National Anthropological Archives

Identifier

NAA.PhotoLot.176, Item Negative 3718 B

Type

Archival materials

Glass negatives

NAA.PhotoLot.176_ref6633

Large EAD

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw35b1d053e-081f-4fe0-a327-28d197d88a51

NAA.PhotoLot.176

NAA

Record ID

ebl-1628267668517-1628267670153-7

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