"Squaws Playing Ball on the Prairie"
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.2860 ZZ 2
label: Local Note
content: "Sketched" might refer to a pencil drawing which was later copied for an oil painting. Both McDermott (pages 55-56, painting called "Ball Play of the Squaws on the Prairie;" reproduced as plate 46) and Bushnell (page 4) refer to the sale of the oil painting to the American Art Union in 1849.
label: Local Note
content: Mrs Eastman's comments on the Ball Game: "The Indians bet heavily on this game." "The prizes to the winning party hang on the pole until the game is decided. In their games, the Sioux women get much more excited than the men ...." McDermott, page 56.
label: Local Note
content: Bushnell says tribe is Menominee. Mrs Eastman refers to the Sioux.
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Eastman, Seth
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Creator
content: Eastman, Seth
culture: label: Culture
content: Menominee (Menomini)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Eastman, Seth
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: "represents a group of Menominee, and possibly members of another tribe, in the vicinity of Fort Crawford, [Wisconsin]...," probably sketched while Eastman was stationed at Fort Crawford, 1829-1830. -- Information from Bushnell, SMC, Volume 87, Number 3, 1932, page 3; also reproduced as as plate 3.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: before 1849
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Painting is in Peabody Museum, Harvard University. -- Whatmough, Bushnell Catalogue, page 11, cat. number 71.