"Dakotah Encampment"
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.3705
label: Local Note
content: Eastman made a pencil sketch and oil painting of this subject while at Fort Snelling (McDermott, page 60; oil painting has never been located). Eastman made a water color (completed by 1851) based on the sketch; this water color was made for the engraving in Schoolcraft's Indian Tribes of the United States (volume 2, plate 28).
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Eastman, Seth
label: Engraver
content: Smillie, James
topic: label: Topic
content: Sioux
creator: label: Creator
content: Eastman, Seth
label: Engraver
content: Smillie, James
culture: label: Culture
content: Dakota -- Mdewakanton
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Sioux
setName: label: See more items in
content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
label: See more items in
content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Eastman, Seth
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Bushnell, SMC, volume 87, number 3, 1932, page 8, states that the Dakota Indians sketched and painted by Eastman at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, 1841-1848, were Mdewakanton.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1852
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: The water color is now in the James Jerome Hill Reference Library, Saint Paul (Frances Densmore, "The Collection of Water-Color Drawings of the North American Indian by Seth Eastman in the James Jerome Hill Reference Library," 1954, pages 14-15).