Photograph of Charles Banks Wilson's "Arkansea Indian (Quapaw) Circa 1700 with Calumets"
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 87-13
name: label: Artist
content: Wilson, Charles Banks
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
label: Topic
content: Body marking
label: Topic
content: Calumets
creator: label: Artist
content: Wilson, Charles Banks
culture: label: Culture
content: Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)
label: Culture
content: Omaha
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Quapaw Indians
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Charles Banks Wilson (1918-2013) was a painter, printmaker, historian, and illustrator.  Born in Springdale, Arkansas, his family eventually moved to Miami, Oklahoma, where he grew up.  In 1985, the Smithsonian Institution exhibited a series of his paintings entitled "Search for the Purebloods," which consisted of 70 portraits of full-blooded members of Native American tribes.  This series included a portrait of the Wilson's Quapaw mother-in-law.  To prepare for this project, Wilson analyzed accounts by the explorer Henri de Tonti and conducted research at the University of Arkansas, the Smithsonian, and the Gilcrease Museum.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Copy print
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1986
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Charles Banks Wilson through Herman J. Viola, November, 1986.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.87-13
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Copy 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: A photograph of Charles Banks Wilson's pencil drawing depicting an eighteenth century Quapaw man holding two feathered pipes (calumets) and wearing body paint and a headdress.  The drawing was based on research and model Ed Quapaw.  The collection also includes two photocopies of drawings showing the bust of the oldest Omaha man (94 years old), his 76-year-old son, and the last chief of the Winnebagos linked by heredity to the post.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photocopy of a newspaper article on the drawing, which was donated along with the collection, has been relocated to the National Anthropological Archives Reference Files.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Portrait Gallery and Pierson Gallery in Tulsa, OK, hold prints and paintings by Wilson.