Profile portrait of Mandan Chief Sheheke or Shahaka or The Big White
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.3924 C
label: General
content: Identified as Mandan Chief Shahaka by Ellen G. Miles in Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America (1994). Although he is identified as an Indian of the Iowas of the Missouri in the inscription, the watercolor referenced below is inscribed "Mandan King."
label: Local Note
content: A watercolor of this subject, also by St Memin, was once owned by Luke Vincent Lockwood. The portrait is the same with the exception of the dress, the watercolor showing only a portion of a buffalo skin over one shoulder. See New York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin, April 1928 - Figure 9, and "The St Memin Indian Portraits," by Luke Vincent Lockwood, Member American Antiquarian Society. (Figure 8). 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: He wears his hair banged and long behind, his ear is mutilated and the earring is a silver wheel. Inscribed in St Memin's handwriting"Indien des Iowas des Missouri."