The Sacred Hawk or Little Crow, also The Hawk That Hunts Walking

Julian Vannerson (1827-after 1875)

Date

1869
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Albumen silver print
Dimensions

Image: 4 9/16 x 3 3/8 in.
Sheet: 7 7/16 x 5 1/16 in.
Mount: 8 1/2 x 6 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
l.c. in image: Mdewakanton.1a
Mount Recto:
u.l. in graphite: Siouan Family
Mount Verso:
u.c. to u.r. printed on paper label: 197-8. [7 crossed out] CHE-TAN-WA-KU-TE-A-MA-NI. The Hawk that hunts \ Walking. MDEWAKANTON. \ Generally known as Little Crow. Leader of the \ hostile bands in the Sioux massacre of the whites in \ Minnesota in 1862. He had not only visited Wash- \ ington, and was supposed to be friendly to the whites, \ but had promised to have his hair cut and become civ- \ ilized; and at the time of the massacre the Govern- \ ment was engaged in building him a house. Upon \ the defeat of the Indians, Little Crow escaped into \ the British Territory, where he was killed the follow- \ ing year.
u.c. to u.r printed on paper label: Che-tan Wa-hu. ) Wa). \ Chicken hawk pursues \ Ma-ni. \ walking
c. in graphite: 792. \ Neg. No. 3506
Collection Name

Bureau of American Ethnology Collection
Credit Line

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

P1967.3030
Copyright

Public domain

Location: Off view

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