Photographs and microfilm of Paul Kane paintings and sketchbook
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 4428, NAA Photo Lot 4427
label: Reproduction Note
content: Copy prints and microfilm made by the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology.
name: label: Creator
content: Kane, Paul, 1810-1871
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Ottawa (Odawa)

Clallam (Klallam)

Assiniboin; Assiniboine

Sioux (Eastern)

Chippewa

Babine
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
label: Topic
content: Painting
label: Topic
content: Dance
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content: Camps
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content: Hunting
label: Topic
content: American bison
creator: label: Creator
content: Kane, Paul, 1810-1871
culture: label: Culture
content: Menominee (Menomini)
label: Culture
content: Odawa (Ottawa)
label: Culture
content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: Potawatomi
label: Culture
content: Cree
label: Culture
content: Assiniboine (Stoney)
label: Culture
content: Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
label: Culture
content: Cowichan
label: Culture
content: S'Klallam (Klallam)
label: Culture
content: Cowlitz
label: Culture
content: Chinook
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Subarctic
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Paul Kane (1810-1871) was born in Ireland and emigrated to Toronto (then called York) when he was nine. He worked as a decorative furniture painter before turning to portrait painting and studying art at centers throughout Europe. Inspired by George Catlin's paintings documenting the Plains Indians, Kane set out on an expedition from Fort William (Thunder Bay) to Fort Vancouver to document the peoples of the Northwest. From 1845-1848, Kane traveled amongst tribes of the Great Plains, Pacific Northwest, and elsewhere, sketching and describing his experiences in a journal. When Kane returned to Toronto, he published "Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America" (1859) and made over 100 paintings based on his journal sketches, commissioned by George William Allen. The entire Allen collection was later purchased by Sir Edmund Osler and donated to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Copy negative (acetate)
label: Extent
content: 1 Microfilm reel
label: Extent
content: 84 Copy prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Purchased from the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto in October 1954.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.4428
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Copy negatives
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content: Microfilm reels
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals note
content: Original paintings and sketchbook held by the Royal Ontario Museum.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Inventory of paintings available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs of sketches and paintings made by Paul Kane in 1845-1856, including portraits and scenes of camps, dances, and a buffalo hunt, relating to the Ojibwa, Ottawa, Menominee, Potawatomi, Eastern Sioux, Cree, Assiniboine, Chinook, Cowlitz, Clallam, Cowichan and Babine. The sketchbook, of which the microfilm may be incomplete, includes many of the same subjects as the paintings, as well as artifacts, scenic views and scenes from Kane's studies in Europe. The collection also includes a photostat of the catalog published in Kane's "Wanderings of an Artist..." and a typed list of the captions for the sketches.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photographs previously filed in Photo Lot 4427, have been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 4428. These are photographs of paintings by Kane in the Royal Ontario Museum and were donated with the photographs of sketches already filed in this collection.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs of paintings by Kane held in National Anthropological Archives MS 4642 and the BAE historical negatives.
label: Contained in
content: Numbered manuscripts 1850s-1980s (some earlier)