Choctaw settlement at Bonfouca, St Tammany Parish, Louisiana
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.2860 ZZ 1
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Bernard, Francois
label: Artist
content: Bernard, Francisco ?
place: label: Place
content: Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish -- Bonfouca
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Creator
content: Bernard, Francois
label: Artist
content: Bernard, Francisco ?
culture: label: Culture
content: Choctaw
setName: label: See more items in
content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Bernard, Francois
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Groce & Wallace, 1957 (The New York Historical Society Dictionary of Artists in America), page 46 list a Francisco Bernard as a portrait and landscape painter who was in New Orleans from 1856 to 1860, and returned there in 1867.

Judging from this and from Bushnell's own note quoted in the Peabody catalog, Bushnell was mistaken when he gave the date as 1846 in the caption of Plate 11, in Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 69, 1919, and stated in his text that the picture was made "the next year" after Pere Roquette erected his first chapel in 1845.

What he actually says is (page 64): "A part of this settlement as it was the next year is shown in Plate 11, this being a reproduction of a painting made by Bernard, bearing the date 1846." Perhaps the people at Peabody could examine the painting for any date which might be written on it. MCB 6/58.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1869
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Reproduced by D. I. Bushnell, Jr. in Bureau of American Bulletin 69, 1919, Plate 11. On plate caption and on page 64 the date is erroneously given as 1846.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Original painting in the Bushnell collection, Peabody Museum, Harvard University; copy of description from Peabody Museum catalog of Bushnell collection attached.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: In the catalog of the Bushnell collection in the Peabody Museum, Harvard there is the following entry: Bernard, Francois. Born in Paris, France: died in Tonkin, French Indo-China. Did most of his work in New Orleans where he made a fortune with his pastels. Probably born in Paris between the years 1820-1830 and probably went to the United States in 1856. Bushnell's notes. 27. Choctaw village near the Chefuncte. (47) 48 1/2" x 34 1/2". Purchased from Stein's Auction Exchange, New Orleans, by Mr Bushnell, November 1, 1921, according to recepted invoice (100.00 dollars). There is no indication that the Peabody Museum has made a negative.(Bureau of American Ethnology Negative Number 2860 ZZ 1)

Letter of Mrs Katherine B. Edsall, Peabody Museum, December 15, 1965 reports that the painting has just been cleaned and "the painting is signed very legibly "Bernard 1869"and it is not possible to mistake the signature for anthing else."