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Standing Buffalo or Tatanka nazin

Joel E. Whitney (1822-1886), A. Zeno Shindler (1823-1899)

Object Details

  • Date

    1869, ca. 1862

  • Object Type

    Photographs

  • Medium

    Albumen silver print

  • Dimensions

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

  • Inscriptions

    Recto:

    l.c. in image: Santee.15.

    Mount Recto:

    l.l. in red ink: Ta-tan-ka ha-zhin \ Buffalo bull standing

    l.r. in red ink: Sisseton Dakota

    Mount Verso:

    u.c. printed on paper label: 250. TA-TAN'KA-NA-ZIN. Standing Buffalo.

    u.l. to u.r. printed on paper label: 250- Sisseton Dakota. [in graphite] (?) \ [printed] Ta-tan-ka Na-zhin. \ Buffalo bull Standing \ Last great Chief of the Sisseton Dakota. \ When he came to man's estate his father abdicated \ his Chieftainship in favor of his son. At the \ time of the Siouan Indian outbreak in 1862, \ Standing Buffalo was a man in middle llife. (see \ article in Con. to N.A. Ethnology vol. IX Riggs. \ Dakota grammer, texts & Ethnography, pp 196 to 200)

    c. in graphite: 1011 \ Neg. no. 3486 ?

  • Collection Name

    Bureau of American Ethnology Collection

  • Credit Line

    Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

  • Accession Number

    P1967.3188

  • Copyright

    Public domain

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