Object Details
Creator
King, Charles Bird
Scope and Contents
Listed in "Catalogue of Pictures, Statuary & Co., belonging to Redwood Library, September 1, 1885" as No. 170, "An Assiniboin Indian, from the most remote tribe that had ever visited Washington previous to 1838."
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Local Numbers
NAA INV.9990000
OPPS NEG.4694
Local Note
Black and white copy negative
Topic
Assiniboin
Creator
King, Charles Bird
Culture
Assiniboine (Stoney)
Indians of North America -- Great Plains
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Biographical / Historical
See John C. Ewers, "Charles Bird King, Painter of Indian Visitors to the Nation's Capital," Smithsonian Institution Annual Report for 1953, Washington, 1954, pages 467-68 and Plate 7. This is almost certainly intended to be a portrait of The Light, who visited Washington in 1831-32; a much better portrait of him was painted by Catlin in St Louis in the fall of 1831. (Both portraits reproduced by Ewers.)
Extent
1 Photograph (8x10 in)
Date
1832
Archival Repository
National Anthropological Archives
Type
Archival materials
Photographs
Genre/Form
Photographs
Existence and Location of Originals
The original painting was in the Redwood Library, Newport, Rhode Island, until May 1970, when it was sold at auction by that library at the Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York City. The identity of the current owner is not known.
NAA.PhotoLot.176_ref6656
Large EAD
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NAA
Record ID
ebl-1628267668517-1628267671117-2