Blackfoot man, Ground, or Suc-k-wim and wife with nose cut off (Old Nosy)
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA INV.10001048

OPPS NEG.55540
label: Local Note
content: Black and white original film negative
name: label: Creator
content: Scott, Hugh Lenox, General
topic: label: Topic
content: Blackfeet
creator: label: Creator
content: Scott, Hugh Lenox, General
culture: label: Culture
content: Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
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 / Scott, Hugh Lenox, General
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Identified as Ground and Rosy ("Nosy") Ground by John C. Ewers, Senior Ethnologist, SI Department of Anthropology, by comparison with photo of portrait of Ground and his wife by Winold Reiss, painted in 1927. At that time their ages were given in the catalog ("American Indian Portraits by Winold Reiss in the Belmaison Galleries beginning April 14, 1928") are 92 for Ground and 73 for "Nosy" (see entry Number 26 of "Old Man Ground Medicine and his wife"). "Nosy" Ground was the last Blackfoot woman known to Ewers to have her nose cut off for infidelity. (This took place long before her marriage to Ground.)

Negative found in envelope marked: "Taken on Western Trip, 1924. Apparently same couple as Blackfoot Negative Number 430-h; therefore classified as Blackfoot.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1924
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