Portrait of Assiniboin man, Wets It, a chief
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA INV 9988100 ; OPPS NEG 3718 A
label: Local Note
content: [In Negative 3747] Wetsit wears a replica of his war medicine bonnet, captured in war by the Piegan, some years earlier. [Information from J.C. Ewers]
label: Place
content: Nebraska Omaha
culture: label: Culture
content: Assiniboine (Stoney)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Glass Negatives / Photographer not recorded
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Glass negative (5x7 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1898
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.176, Item Negative 3718 A
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Glass negatives
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Wets It: an Assiniboin of Fort Peck Reservation, Montana. According to his stepson (Joshua Wetsit) he had an excellent war record, was leader of the Assiniboin delegation to Omaha Exposition. Father of Joshua Wets It, informant to J.C. Ewers, 1953.