Lantern slides of Ferdinand Pettrich sculptures related to Native Americans
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 20
name: label: Names
content: Museo missionario etnologico (Vatican City)
label: Names
content: Black Hawk, approximately 1832-approximately 1890
label: Collector
content: Cooper, John M. (John Montgomery), 1881-1949
label: Names
content: Keokuk, Sauk chief, 1780?-1848
label: Collector
content: Nuttall, Zelia, 1858-1933
label: Names
content: Pettrich, Ferdinand, 1798-1872
label: Names
content: Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief, 1768-1813
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Sauk & Fox

Sioux

Creek (Muskogee)

Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)
label: Culture
content: Shawnee
label: Culture
content: Sauk
label: Culture
content: Muscogee (Creek)
label: Culture
content: Fox
label: Culture
content: Sioux
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Ferdinand Pettrich (1798-1872) was born in Dresden, Germany, and first learned sculpting practices from his father, a court sculptor for the King of Saxony.  After moving to Rome at age 21, he studied under the Danish sculptor and teacher Albert B. Thorvaldsen.  Following this education, Pettrich traveled to America with his wife in 1835, and opened a studio in Washington, D.C.  There, he sculpted busts for politicians and visiting Native American delegates and may have made sketches depicting facets of the life and history of various tribes.  Some of those sketches were later used to compose his statues.  In 1942, Pettrich was stabbed, and moved to recuperate in Brazil, where he worked as court sculptor for Emperor Dom Pedro II.  He later returned to Rome, where he presented his sculptures of Native American subjects to the Museum of St. John Lateran in the Vatican.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 28 Lantern slides (28, lantern slides)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1927
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by the Department of Anthropology of the Catholic University of America in 1956 as part of USNM ACC 211312. They were originally cataloged by Father John Montgomery Cooper, who may have received them from Zelia Marie Magdelena Nuttall. In 1927, Nuttall was planning to write a biography of Pettrich and persuaded the president of The Catholic University of America to obtain photographs of his work.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.20
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Lantern slides
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Digital surrogates exist for all lantern slides.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs of statues, busts, and reliefs in the Vatican's Museo Missionario Etnologico. Included are portraits of Creek, Dakota, Fox, Sauk, Shawnee, and Winnebago people, as well as scenes of scalping, hunting, and a council between Native Americans and United States government officials.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Lithographs of Pettrich sketches are held in National Anthropological Archives MS 4886.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional artifacts donated by the Department of Anthropology, Catholic University of America in USNM ACC 211312 held in the Department of Anthropology collections and in National Anthropological Archives Photo lot 32.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Copies of correspondence from Pettrich held in the Archives of American Art in the Joel Roberts Poinsett letters from artists and Ferdinand F. A. Pettrich letters to Henry Wise.