"Waki-ta-mo-ne and his Troop of Hunters--Ottoe Warriors"
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.56172
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Artist
content: Möllhausen, Balduin, 1825-1905
label: Lithographer
content: Hanhart
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Otoe
creator: label: Artist
content: Möllhausen, Balduin, 1825-1905
label: Lithographer
content: Hanhart
culture: label: Culture
content: Oto
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Möllhausen, Balduin, 1825-1905
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1851-54
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
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content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: "He [Waki-ta-mo-ne] was a man of gigantic height, and, as I could see, though he sat crouched together, of fine and powerful form; his hair was cut rather short, and by great pains bestowed on it, made to stand straight upright, except the plaited scalp lock at the top of his head, which hung low down his back. His face was decorated with black stripes; ...His name was Wa-ki-ta-mo-nee, or the Fat Soldier; he was one of the most distinguished warriors of the Ottoes, and the numerous scalps that adorned his shield gave testimony to his valient deeds, and to his quality of dreaded warrior he added to, as I was informed, that of a great medicine man-- that is, physician and conjuror." [story related by "the German Naturalist" which is how Mollhausen referred to himself--see Alex Von Humboldt preface, page XXIII; this particular episode quoted above was cited from his trip in the autumn and winter of 1851-52.] page 149 of Mollhausen's Diary (see source for citation).