Object Details
Creator
Eastman, Seth
Scope and Contents
Frances Densmore gives the following descriptive data on the practices of Indian medicine men: (pages 39-40) Doctor in the picture sings as he shakes a gourd rattle with his left hand and stirs medicine with the right. The skin of a large bird and large bag woven of bark or roots lies on the ground beside him. (Bag may be used for storing dried herbs). A pointed bag, such as the type used by the Dakotas in the old days to contain packets of herb medicine, hangs on the post at the left.
sova.naa.photolot.176_ref7934
Local Numbers
OPPS NEG.48185
Local Note
The mat covered dwelling suggests a Chippewa structure -- Information from Frances Densmore, "The Collection of Water Color Drawings of the North American Indian by Seth Eastman in the James Jerome Hill Reference Library," 1954, page 40.
Black and white copy negative
Topic
Sioux
Creator
Eastman, Seth
Culture
Sioux
Indians of North America -- Great Plains
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Biographical / Historical
1854 is the date picture sent to be published (McDermott, page 87).
Extent
1 Photograph (8x10 in)
Date
1854?
Archival Repository
National Anthropological Archives
Type
Archival materials
Photographs
Bibliography
Listed as #64 and reproduced as Fig. 7 in John Frances McDermott, The Art of Seth Eastman, A Traveling Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings Circulated by the Smithsonian Institution, 1959-1960 [Washington, 1959], 34 pages.
Reproduced in J. F. McDermott, Seth Eastman, Norman, 1961, Plate 90.
Engraving of this subject (cf. S.I. Negative 11752) published in Schoolcraft's Indian Tribes of the United States, Part V, 1855, Plate 34.
Genre/Form
Photographs
NAA.PhotoLot.176_ref7934
Large EAD
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NAA.PhotoLot.176
NAA
Record ID
ebl-1628267668517-1628267670936-1