Tomochichi, Creek Chief, being presented by Oglethorpe in Europe
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.1129 C
label: Local Note
content: See also text of Bulletin 137, page 210. Swanton is of the opinion that the Yamacraw (of whom Tomo-chi-chi was chief) may have been part of the Yamassee.
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Verelst
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Creek (Muskogee)
label: Topic
content: Yamasee
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Creator
content: Verelst
culture: label: Culture
content: Yamassee Indians
label: Culture
content: Muscogee (Creek)
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Verelst
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1734
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Digital surrogate produced from reference copy print
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Published in Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 137, Plate 30 with the erroneous title, "Tomochichi meeting Oglethorpe in Europe," with the explanatory note, "From a painting in the State Capitol at Atlanta, Ga., copied from the original in the possession of the Duke of Sutherland. (Obtained through the courtesy of Mrs J. A. Hayes, the State Historian.)"
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content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: The original is in the possession of a descendant of the Earl of Shaftesbury, one of the trustees.
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content: "Oglethorpe presenting Tomo-chi-chi and the Indians to the Lord Trustees of the Colony of Georgia. Painted in 1734 by the Dutch [Flemish ?] painter, Willem Verelst. The original is in the possession of a descendant of the Earl of Shaftesbury, one of the Trustees. These are actual portraits. The key shown below has been furnished by the Georgia society of the Colonial Dames of America. [Key names the trustees but the Indians are not individually named. Oglethorpe is at center, standing, in black suit.]..." --Caption from Alice G. B. Lockwood, "Gardens of Colony and State," 1934, page 271. The woman in the picture would be Tomochichi's wife, and the young boy his nephew. See Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30, Tomochichi.