Assiniboin man, The Light
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA INV.9990000

OPPS NEG.4694
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: King, Charles Bird
topic: label: Topic
content: Assiniboin
creator: label: Creator
content: King, Charles Bird
culture: label: Culture
content: Assiniboine (Stoney)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
setName: label: See more items in
content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / King, Charles Bird
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: See John C. Ewers, "Charles Bird King, Painter of Indian Visitors to the Nation's Capital," Smithsonian Institution Annual Report for 1953, Washington, 1954, pages 467-68 and Plate 7. This is almost certainly intended to be a portrait of The Light, who visited Washington in 1831-32; a much better portrait of him was painted by Catlin in St Louis in the fall of 1831. (Both portraits reproduced by Ewers.)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1832
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: The original painting was in the Redwood Library, Newport, Rhode Island, until May 1970, when it was sold at auction by that library at the Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York City. The identity of the current owner is not known.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Listed in "Catalogue of Pictures, Statuary & Co., belonging to Redwood Library, September 1, 1885" as No. 170, "An Assiniboin Indian, from the most remote tribe that had ever visited Washington previous to 1838."