Colored Drawing Of A Scalp Dance
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Donor Name
content: Col. Paul E. Beckwith
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "OLD LABEL SAYS: "PAINTED BY TEJI-MO-NI (WALKING-IN-LIGHT), A WILD YANCTON SIOUX INDIAN. MATERIALS USED: BOX PAINTS (WATER COLORS) AND A SHARP POINTED STICK." Showing a scalp dance around a tree.
label: Notes
content: By “Yankton Sioux” Beckwith was probably referring to a member of the Pabaksa (Cut Head), or Upper Yanktonai, then resident at Devils Lake Agency. In “Customs of the Dakotah” (SI Annual Report 1886), Beckwith noted that the Yankton and Yanktonai bands of Dakota had effectively merged. In the same report, he described the Scalp Dance or “I-wa-hi-ci-pi” in which young women carried scalps on poles. This is one of four illustrations received from Beckwith, E23552-23554. The last number, E23555 is no longer in the collection as of 2019. The remaining drawings all appear to be by the same artist using the same materials. Dakota language scholars do not recognize Beckwith's rendering of the artists name and cannot correlate it with his translation.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains (Northern), North Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Yankton (Ihanktonwan) Dakota
label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Yanktonai (Ihanktonwana) Dakota, Cut Head (Pabaska)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005272
label: USNM Number
content: E23552-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Muslin Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 43.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 30 cm