"Funeral scaffold of a Sioux chief"
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.43173 A
label: Local Note
content: "This is a picture of unusual interest as it shows a body placed within a travois frame, resting upon a platform supported by four upright poles. Undoubtedly the travois was the one in which it had been secured while being 'brought from a great distance with much pomp.'"-- Bushnell, Bulletin 83 (Plate 11).
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Bodmer, Carl
topic: label: Topic
content: Sioux
creator: label: Creator
content: Bodmer, Carl
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
setName: label: See more items in
content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Bodmer, Carl
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Pencil and wash original made at Fort Pierre, April, 1834.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1843
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
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Travois burial on scaffold. Encampment; view of tipis and men seated, smoking.