Drawing of a man of lower Louisiana in winter dress
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.42325 B
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: De Batz, A.
place: label: Place
content: Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Creator
content: De Batz, A.
culture: label: Culture
content: Atakapa
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / De Batz, A.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1732-35
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Digital surrogate produced from reference copy print
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Original in Peabody Museum, Harvard.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: "Buffalo skins, dressed so as to allow them to become soft and pliable and without removing the hair, were used by the Indians throughout the Mississippi Valley to protect them from the cold of winter. Such robes were often decorated on the inner side by designs painted in several colors. This sketch shows a robe decorated in a simple design in red and black." -- Bushnell, SMC 80:5. Bushnell also goes on to theorize that this may be an Atacapa, but does it only on the superficial basis that the man or his costume resembles the Atacapa man in Negative 2860 ZZ 6.