"Sioux Indians Playing the Game of Plum Stones"
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.2860 HH 2
label: Local Note
content: Eastman made a water color of this subject based on the Fort Snelling pencil sketch about 1850 or 1851; this water color was made for the engraving in Schoolcraft's Indian Tribes of the United States (volume 2, plate 18); the water color has never been located (McDermott, page 86).
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Eastman, Seth
label: Engraver
content: Wagstaff, C. E.
label: Engraver
content: Andrews, J.
topic: label: Topic
content: Sioux
creator: label: Creator
content: Eastman, Seth
label: Engraver
content: Wagstaff, C. E.
label: Engraver
content: Andrews, J.
culture: label: Culture
content: Dakota -- Mdewakanton
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Sioux
setName: label: See more items in
content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Eastman, Seth
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Bushnell, SMC, volume 87, number 3, 1932, page 8, states that the Dakota Indians sketched and painted by Eastman at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, 1841-1848, were Mdewakanton
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1852
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Pencil sketch reproduced in McDermott, plate 50.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Eastman made a sketch and oil painting of this subject while at Fort Snelling (McDermott, page 60); the oil painting has never been located; the original sketch with the above penciled title is now in the Bushnell Collection, Peabody Museum, Harvard University. (Whatmough, Bushnell Catalogue, page 11, cat. numbers 84 and 84a.