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Circular Cloud is sitting beside a tipi. These are actually two different photographs taken seconds apart. The item is number 275 of the series Upton's Views of Minnesota and the Northwest.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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.
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).
This oil, painted for the House Committee on Indian Affairs (McDermott, page 100), was based on a water color of the same subject prepared for Schoolcraft's Indian Tribes of the United States, 1851, from sketches made at Fort Snelling, 1841-48 (op. cit., page 84 and 100-101). See pencil sketch done at Fort Snelling in McDermott, plate 42 and water color on same subject done for Schoolcraft's work, plate 78.
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.
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.44189 F
Local Note:
See McDermott, page 53-54 for description of Dog Dance at Fort Snelling as related by Mrs Eastman.
This picture shows two figures bringing food to a scaffold burial. Mrs Mary H. Eastman, in the American Annual: Illustrative of the Early History of North America, in which this engraving is also reproduced, gives some details about the picture: The dead body is wrapped in a (scarlet) cloth. It is placed on a scaffold, from one corner of which hangs a medicine sack to keep off evil spirits and from another corner, a small kettle containing food for the dead. A woman offers more food in a bark dish. A man holds up a bottle from which he will offer a libation (of whiskey) to the departed spirit. The tent-shaped arrangement of sticks below the scaffold marks the grave of a person already removed from a scaffold (sticks used to keep the wolves off). page 110.
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.
Date: 1851 is publication date of volume I of Schoolcraft's Indian Tribes of the United States in which this engraving appeared.
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.2860 VV 2
Local Note:
McDermott (page 60) cites an oil painting, "Feeding the Dead," which Eastman executed at Fort Snelling of Upper Mississippi River subjects. Engraving by R. Hinshelwood for Schoolcraft's Indian Tribes of the United States was probably based on Eastman's oil which he brought to Washington.
Painting variously called: "Indian with Bottle and Spoon" (Eastman's title ?), "The Lonely Indian" (Mrs Eastman's title) and "Good Medicine" - (McDermott, pages 55-56).
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.Mrs Eastman identified this man as a Dakota (McDermott, page 56).
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.44189 B
Local Note:
See and use Number 44781.
Black and white copy negative
Restrictions:
Permission must be obtained for any reproduction of S.I. Negative Number 44781. Permission for S.O.A. to distribute prints of 44781 received from Kennedy Galleries, letter of June 23, 1965 (Letter filed: Eastman, Seth in reprint file.)
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.
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.2860 ZZ 5 B
Local Note:
It is presumed that Eastman based this oil painting on earlier sketches of similar subjects (cf. 2860 ZZ 5 A). Also similar to engraving in Schoolcraft's Indian Tribes of the United States ("differs principally in that the man seated beside the tipi on the right, smoking, has been omitted," page 101, McDermott).
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.
Date: 1850 "S.E. 1850" marked in lower right margin.
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.2860 ZZ 5 A
Local Note:
This water color was copied in Washington from a small pencil sketch made at Fort Snelling. (op. cit., page 12).
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.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
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He is sitting with his head in his left hand. These are actually two different photographs. The photograph was taken at Fort Snelling. The item is number 107 of the series Upton's Views of Minnesota and the Northwest.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09933500
Other Title:
Upton's Views of Minnesota and the Northwest
Place:
Minnesota -- Fort Snelling
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Citation:
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
This view was taken in the camp of Sitting Bull's band of Hunkpapa Sioux when they were interred near Fort Randall, Dakota Territory. The item is number 4 in the series. This is the largest tipi belonging to the camp. An old woman is tanning a wolf skin on the ground.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Eastman's list of pictures sent to the American Art Union describes the dance: (from McDermott, page 52) "After the Sioux return from the battle with the scalps they have taken the scalps are dressed, the inside rubbed over with blue clay or vermillion they are then stretched out to a hoop fixed to a pole it is then ready for the dance The scalp is fixed entirely by the Squaws. The medicine men beat time on skins stretched over a keg or made something like a tambourine at the same time singing a monotonous gutteral song. The squaws dance around the scalp in concentric circles. The scalps are carried on the shoulders of some squaws who have lost relatives in battle. After dancing five, ten or fifteen minutes they stop & one of the squaws will state to the assembly that her father, son, brother or husband was killed by a Chippeway [,] Soc or some tribe. She will conclude by saying-"Whose scalp have I got on my shoulder?" Then a grand war whoop is given [and] the dance recommences. The dance continues two or three months until it goes through every village of the tribe. After which the scalp is buried with a good deal of ceremony. Their richest dresses are worn in this dance."
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.
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.3711 C
Local Note:
Eastman made a sketch and oil painting of this subject while at Fort Snelling (McDermott, page 52); the oil painting was sold and Eastman's water color made in 1850 for the engraving in Schoolcraft's Indian Tribes of the United States (Volume II, plate 12) was based on his sketch at Fort Snelling. (McDermott, page 52, 61, 85).
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
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.2860 HH 2
Local Note:
Eastman made a water color of this subject based on the Fort Snelling pencil sketch about 1850 or 1851; this water color was made for the engraving in Schoolcraft's Indian Tribes of the United States (volume 2, plate 18); the water color has never been located (McDermott, page 86).
The image depicts nine Sioux and two white men in front of a tipi The item is number 222 of the Black Hills Stereographs of the series of Northern Pacific Views.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
