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Ma-to-nom-pa, Two Grizzly Bears [profile]

William Henry Jackson (1843-1942)

Object Details

  • Date

    before 1877

  • Object Type

    Photographs

  • Medium

    Albumen silver print

  • Dimensions

    Image: 7 1/2 x 5 in.
    Mount: 8 1/2 x 6 1/16 in.

  • Inscriptions

    Recto:

    l.c. in image: L. Yanktonai.3a

    Mount Verso:

    u.c. printed on paper label: 281. MA-TO-NOM-PA. Two Bears. (Profile.) \ [in graphite] Chief of [printed] LOWER YANKTONAIS.

    u.r. in graphite: in 1826

    u.c. printed on paper label: Ma-to non-pa, Two Grizzly bears. \ two \ [in graphite] 778.

    u.c. to c. in graphite: buried near Standing Rock. N.D. \ Was a supporter of Sitting Bull and \ supplied him with ammunition and flour \ The Yanktonai's were surrounded by \ the 7th Cav. - in 1876 and surrendered \ 2000 head of horses all their guns and \ were left in winter at their camp \ on the Missouri River \ this chief made the surrender \ Neg. 3537-8

  • Collection Name

    Bureau of American Ethnology Collection

  • Credit Line

    Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

  • Accession Number

    P1967.3222

  • Copyright

    Public domain

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