Dakota winter count by unidentified Indian artist
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.57487
label: Local Note
content: "I had known the chief for several years before he allowed me to photograph the calfskin record and himself and his family. For this occasion High Hawk and his wife dressed themselves in their finest ceremonial garments." (page 88) (J.C. Rhodes, 1/4/71)
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Photographer
content: McFatridge, Arthur E.
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Sioux
creator: label: Photographer
content: McFatridge, Arthur E.
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux
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 / McFatridge, Arthur E.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Date: not recorded; original was collected between 1895-1902.

"Print from original glass plate negative made by Arthur E. McFatridge, who was a teacher at He Dog's Camp Day School on the Rosebud Reservation from 1898 to 1906," typed on back of print lent by Denver Art Museum.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: This count is published with an interpretation by David Finster in Museum News (University of South Dakota), Volume 29, Numbers 3-4, 1968. It is there stated that the count was collected between 1895-1902 by Dr Leonidas Marvin Hardin (1868-1937); it belongs to his daughter, Mrs Robert Niblick of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and is on loan to the W. H. Over Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota. It is drawn on unbleached muslin with wax crayons.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The artist was High Hawk, according to passage from article by McFatridge's granddaughter (Dorothy McFatridge McBride, "Hoosier Schoolmaster among the Sioux," Montana, 22:4, 78-97): "High Hawk's most treasured possession was a history of his people and their home country which he recorded in hieroglyphics on an Indian-tanned calfskin. Tne story it told spanned many years and times: from hunting forays to the coming of the whites, from harmony with nature to sickness with smallpox, from the old free way to reservation confinement. The history was considered extremely valuable and High Hawk would not, under any circumstances, allow it out of his keeping.