Profile portrait of Yellow Corn, wife of Chief Sheheke or Shahaka
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.3924 B
label: General
content: Identified as Yellow Corn, wife of Mandan Chief Sheheke, by Ellen G. Miles in Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America (1994). Although she is identified as an Indian girl of the Iowas of the Missouri in the inscription, the watercolor referenced below was inscribed "Mandan Queen."
label: Local Note
content: There is also a watercolor of this subject, by St Memin, once owned by Luke Vincent Lockwood. The portrait is the same. See New York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin, April 1928 - Figure 11, and "The St Memin Indian Portraits," by Luke Vincent Lockwood, Member American Antiquarian Society. (Figure 10). The watercolor is now at the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art.
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Saint-Mémin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de, 1770-1852
creator: label: Creator
content: Saint-Mémin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de, 1770-1852
culture: label: Culture
content: Numakiki (Mandan)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Saint-Mémin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de, 1770-1852
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
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content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Original owned by the New York Historical Society.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: She has long dark hair, and is fully dressed. Her ears are not mutilated except for piercing for small silver earring. Inscribed by St Memin "Femme Indienne des Iowas des Missouri." (Lower left hand corner - indistinct).