Photographs of Winold Reiss portraits of Plains peoples
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 77-15
name: label: Artist
content: Reiss, Winold, 1886-1953
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Blackfoot

Blood
creator: label: Artist
content: Reiss, Winold, 1886-1953
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
label: Culture
content: A'aninin (Gros Ventre)
label: Culture
content: Kainai Blackfoot (Kainah/Blood)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Winold Reiss (1886-1953) was a German-born American artist who specialized in portraits of Native Americans. After attending art school in Munich, he immigrated to the United States in 1915 and began drawing pastel portraits of members of the Blackfoot tribes. In addition, Reiss drew portraits of workers and revolutionaries in Mexico as well as residents of Harlem in New York City. Reiss was also commissioned to draw portraits of Native Americans for Great Northern Railway calendars.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 75 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Given by Louis W. Hill Jr. of St. Paul, Minnesota, to John C. Ewers, a senior ethnologist at the Smithsonian Institution. Transferred to the National Anthropological Archives, 1976.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.77-15
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Drawings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs of Winold Reiss drawings of Plains peoples, particularly Blackfeet or Kainah, circa 1927.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional artwork by Winold Reiss can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 7534, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 87-2P, and the Acee Blue Eagle Papers.