A sepia-toned portrait photograph of two seated men: a White man wearing a long suit jacket over a vest, and the other an Indigenous man in traditional dress holding a pipe.

Portrait of Charles Picotte (Ite Keča) (Yankton/French), Interpreter and He Paints Himself Dark Like a Bear (Mathó Sabičeya) in Native Dress and Holding Pipe

Julian Vannerson (1827-after 1875), Samuel A. Cohner

Date

Spring 1858, printed 1869
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Albumen silver print
Contributors

Printed by A. Zeno Shindler
Dimensions

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

Recto:
l.l. in image: Yankton.17a
Mount Recto:
l.l. to l.r. in ink: 241- Jackson's label wrong, compare with 217 or Hillers No.1., \ Smutty Bear & unknown white Yankton.
Mount Verso:
u.c. to u.r. printed on paper label: 240-1. SMUTTY BEAR AND STRUCK BY THE REE. ["and struck by the ree" crossed out] YANKTON.
u.c. to u.r. printed on paper label: [in ink] white man \ Wrong title. [all crossed out] Faces [crossed out] unknown to J. O. Dorsey
u.c. in graphite: Neg. No. 3533
Collection Name

Bureau of American Ethnology Collection
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

P1967.3221
Copyright

Public domain

Location: Off view

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