MS 2209 Notes on Chief Washakie's Robe
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 2209
label: Local Note
content: The portrait of Washakie on the cigar box cover is the same as BAE Negative Number 1664 by Baker and Johnston, Evanston, Wyoming. The photograph of the robe was copied (1/72) as NAA Negative Number 72-299.
label: Local Note
content: manuscript document
name: label: Creator
content: Wertz, John T.
label: Creator
content: Wertz, Robert C.
label: Photographer
content: Wertz, Melvin A.
label: Names
content: Washakie, approximately 1804-1900
topic: label: Topic
content: Shoshoni Indians
label: Topic
content: Clothing -- robe
label: Topic
content: Shoshone
creator: label: Creator
content: Wertz, John T.
label: Creator
content: Wertz, Robert C.
label: Photographer
content: Wertz, Melvin A.
culture: label: Culture
content: Umatilla
label: Culture
content: Shoshone
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Basin
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Plateau
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1898
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Received by Bureau of American Ethnology from Melvin A. Wertz, brother of Col. John T. Wertz, with letter of October 4, 1916, see also letter of M. A. Wertz to Bureau of American Ethnology June 19, 1916. Correspondence in Bureau of American Ethnology correspondence file.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2209
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Pictographs
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Pictographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Includes Key to Washakie's pictographs, "Obtained from Chief Washakie (his son Dick acting as interpreter) by Col. John T. Wertz...." Jan. 28, 1897. Manuscript document signed: J. K. M. 9 pages in leatherbound volume. Hand-colored photograph by Melvin A. Wertz of pictographs on elk-skin robe. 1 print. Cover from box of "Washakie" cigars, with mounted photograph of Washakie.