Choctaw man, Pushmataha
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.1092 B
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: King, Charles Bird
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Creator
content: King, Charles Bird
culture: label: Culture
content: Choctaw
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / King, Charles Bird
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Pushmataha born 1764, Noxubee County, Mississippi; died 1824, Washington, D.C. Buried in Congressional Cemetery. For contemporary obituary see clipping from the National Journal, January 4, 1825, mounted in Volume II of Indian Miscellany, Rare Book Room, Bureau of American Ethnology Library. See also biographical sketch in Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30.

Same subject in Volume I, 1838 Edition. Mc Kenney & Hall (Bureau of American Ethnology Library Cat. Number 574) has caption, Push-Ma-Ta-Ha / Chactan Warrior, and, written around the base of the bust is: On stone by J. W. Gear from a Painting by C. B. King. Printed by C. Hallmandel.
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: Published in "Pageant of America," Volume II, page 117 with legend: "Pushmataha, from the portrait by Charles Bird King (1785-1862) in the Redwood Library, Newport, R. I."
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: The original painting was in the Redwood Library, Newport, Rhode Island, until May 1970, when it was sold at auction by that library at the Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York City. The identity of the current owner is unknown.