Photographs of Rudolph Friedrich Kurz drawings
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 2522-c
name: label: Artist
content: Kurz, Rudolf Friedrich, 1818-1871
label: Names
content: Bushnell, David I., Jr. (David Ives), 1875-1941
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Assiniboin; Assiniboine

Gros Ventre; Hidatsa

Otoe

Sioux
creator: label: Artist
content: Kurz, Rudolf Friedrich, 1818-1871
culture: label: Culture
content: Oto
label: Culture
content: Iowa
label: Culture
content: Omaha
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Cree
label: Culture
content: Assiniboine (Stoney)
label: Culture
content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
label: Culture
content: Minitari (Hidatsa)
label: Culture
content: A'aninin (Gros Ventre)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Rudolf Friedrich Kurz (1818-1871) was born to a successful Swiss banker and developed his painting skills through extensive studies in Bern and Paris. Inspired by the works of George Catlin, Kurz traveled to the United States in 1846 to visit the Native Americans living on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. He documented this expedition through text and sketches in his journals, which were later published. In 1852, Kurz returned to Bern, where he taught art until his death in 1871.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 124 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.2522-c
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photographs published in "Journal of Rudolph Friederich Kurz," translated by Myrtis Jarrell, ed. J. N. B. Hewitt, BAE Bulletin 115, 1937.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals note
content: Original drawings in the Historical Museum in Bern, Switzerland.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs of drawings made by Rudolph Friederich Kurz in his diary while traveling to the western fur trading posts on the Mississippi and upper Missouri Rivers (1846-1852).  Most of the drawings depict Native Americans, horses, artifacts, forts, and landscapes.  The photographs were made or collected by David I. Bushnell in Berne, Switzerland, and are mounted for publication, probably in BAE Bulletin 115.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives also holds Bushnell's transcription of Kurz's journal (MS 2522-a), Myris Jarrell's translation of the journal (MS 2522-b), and related notes (MS 2522-d).
label: Contained in
content: Numbered manuscripts 1850s-1980s (some earlier)