Colored Drawing Of Buffalo Dance
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Donor Name
content: Col. Paul E. Beckwith
notes: label: Notes
content: From Card: "Colored drawing of buffalo dance by a wild [sic] Yankton Sioux. Painted by Teji-mo-ni (Waikaigin Light [sic, should be "Walking in Light"]), Materials Used: paint (water color) with a sharp stick"
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 an 1886 publication, he noted that the Yankton and Yanktonai bands of Dakota had effectively merged. 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. This muslin was transferred to the National Anthropological Archives in 1969 and received inventory #08595600. The transfer was part of a larger endeavor to move paper materials to the newly organized archive. Other muslins in this accession were not found at the time and so only one of the group was transferred. It was laminated onto board as part of a widespread archival preservation effort of the 1970s. It was returned to the object collection in 2019 to be reunited with the other paintings in this series.
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: E23554-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Muslin Painting