Cherokee man, John Ross
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.988 C
label: Local Note
content: Copy of artist's sketch, with facsimile of John Ross's signature ?
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: This drawing is evidently based on the painting reproduced as the frontispiece in John Brown, Old Frontiers, Kingsport, Tennessee, 1938, with the caption, "Chief John Ross after the Removal; from a picture made about the time of his second marriage."
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (7x9 in)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Published in The Cherokee Nation (NY: Knopf, 1946) by Marion L. Starkey, who obtained it from Mrs Leonard Ross, Tahlequah, Oklahoma. The Bureau of American Ethnology made inquiry of Mrs Ross about the history of this picture, September 19, 1949, but she could give no information.
label: Bibliography
content: Published in "Pageant of America," volume 14, page 128 with legend: John Ross, 1760-1866, from a portrait in Thomas L. McKenney, "History of the Indian Tribes."
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content: Photographs