Indian man and white man [Charles Picotte; cf. Negative 3634]
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.55685A
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
topic: label: Topic
content: Kansa (Kaw)
label: Topic
content: Otoe
culture: label: Culture
content: American Indian -- Plains
label: Culture
content: American Indian -- Lower Missouri
label: Culture
content: Kaw (Kansa)
label: Culture
content: Osage
label: Culture
content: Oto
label: Culture
content: Ponca
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 / ANONYMOUS
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Date: Not recorded; ca. 1867, date of Negative 3634; not 1858, when Picotte had no beard; cf. Negative 3633.

Picotte, listed as mixed-blood may be part-Dakota ?

According to Robert Taft, Photography and the American Scene (New York), pages 125-126, ambrotypes were first mentioned by name in print in Humphrey's Journal, February 1, 1855. They were fashionable by 1856. "The mode of the ambrotype continued through 1857, but by that time paper photographs had gradually gained the ascendancy.... It should be noted, however, that ambrotypes were made up to the beginning of the dry plate era (1881)." Taft gives the most common sizes of ambrotypes as 2 3/4" x 3 1/4" and 3 1/4" x 4 1/4". This original is of the latter size.

Looks like Unidentified Plains: Lower Missouri: Kansa ? Osage ? Oto ? Ponca ? --J. C. Ewers, infn.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1867
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: Negative 55685 shows ambrotype in gold frame; negative 55685-A was taken with frame removed.