Anonymous Assiniboine map of north side of Missouri River from Fort Union to Fort Benton
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA INV 08691100

 NAA MS 2600-B-1
label: Place
content: United States North Dakota Fort Union.
label: Place
content: United States Dakota Territory Fort Union.
label: Album Information
content: MS 2600B1 019
name: label: Annotator
content: Denig, Edwin Thompson, 1812-1858
label: Collection Collector
content: Denig, Edwin Thompson, 1812-1858
topic: label: Topic
content: Assiniboin
creator: label: Annotator
content: Denig, Edwin Thompson, 1812-1858
culture: label: Culture
content: Assiniboine (Stoney)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
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content: MS 2600-b-1 Anonymous Assiniboine drawings to illustrate Edwin Denig's "Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri"
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Drawings (visual works) (ink, mounted on paper, drawing 31 x 20 cm., mount 36 x 24 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1853 December 27
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Ledger drawings
label: Type
content: Maps
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Ledger drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Maps
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Inscriptions read: "Map of the north side of the Missouri river from Fort Union, mouth of the Yellow Stone, to Fort Benton, mouth of the Maria, drawn by an Assiniboine warrior at Fort Union Dec. 27.1853. The artist was not acquainted with the country on the south side of the Mo. The dotted line is their usual war path to the Blackfeet. Names of rivers & c. written under his direction and explanation." Features on the map are inscribed "Fort Union", "Creek", "Trade Houses", "Bourbeuse R.", "Road to War", "Quaking Asp R.", "Milk River", "North Fork", "Pine Mts.", "War Path", "Bear Paw M.", "Sweet smeling Grass Mounts", "Maria River", "Rocky Mountains", "Fort Benton", "Maria R.", "Teton River", "Missouri River", and "Perpetual Snow Mountains.".