Photograph of painting of Indian Burial by Seth Eastman
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content: NAA INV 10000559 ; OPPS NEG 4691
name: label: Creator
content: Shindler, A. Zeno (Antonio Zeno), 1823-1899
creator: label: Creator
content: Shindler, A. Zeno (Antonio Zeno), 1823-1899
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Glass Negatives / Shindler, A. Zeno (Antonio Zeno) 1823-1899
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content: 1 Glass negative
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1847
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: NAA.PhotoLot.176, Item Negative 4691
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content: Archival materials
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content: Glass negatives
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content: Blackmore Collection Number: A35 - 1838. Shindler Number 236. ; Shows a Sioux funeral in which the dead are buried on a platform which is covered with buffalo robes and surrounded by the weapons & effects of the dead. The corpse is placed in a coffin covered with skins. According to the Missouri Republican (November 30, and December 1, 1847, as quoted in McDermott, page 44): "The position, dress, expressions, implements of war and ornaments are portrayed with exceeding fidelity."  Copy (1869) by Shindler, Washington, D. C. of oil painting by Seth Eastman.   Oil painting by Seth Eastman, 1847, at Fort Snelling (McDermott, page 43), owned by Thomas Gilcrease Foundation (op. cit. page 44.)