Fragments Of Painted Cloth (Catlin Gallery Signs)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Oct 1881
name: label: Collector
content: George Catlin
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Joseph Harrison Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "2 fragments of cloth with parts of sign painted on each in black, red and red and black letters. Word : " ndians" appears in red on one. Possibly fragments of poster used to advertise Catlin's Indian exhibition." As of 2007, there are actually 3 fragments of 3 cotton cloth signs? with lettering in red and black. One of the three fragments is in 2 pieces. These appear to be signs used for George Catlin's Indian Gallery? Fragment 1 (top line in black, lower line in red) says: ...TEEN (which is most likely part of a number, like fourteen) ...NDIANS! (probably "Indians") Smithsonian Photographic Services/NMNH Imaging color digital tiff photo negative # NHB2010-04359 is an image of sign fragment 1. Fragment 2, red lettering, 121 cm. wide x 75 cm. high, says: 14 WILD (this may be part of a sign saying "14 Wild Indians") Smithsonian Photographic Services/NMNH Imaging color digital tiff photo negative # NHB2010-04356 is an image of sign fragment 2.
label: Notes
content: Fragment 3, which is in two pieces, says, in French (top line in black, lower line in red) : ...TREE Par L'Esc... CAFE DE FF... (the second F in the fragmentary last word is unclear and could be another letter.) Benita Eisler, 2007, says that the first line of fragment 3 probably would be [EN]TREE PAR L'ESC[ALIER], i.e. "Entry by the Staircase", and that this is undoubtedly part of a sign directing ticket holders from the street to the interior of the Salle Valentino, the Paris venue for George Catlin's Indian Gallery. Smithsonian Photographic Services/NMNH Imaging color digital tiff photo negative # NHB2010-04358 is an image of sign fragment 3.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Jan 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
place: label: Place
content: United States (not certain), North America (not certain) / Europe (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: American (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 010638
label: USNM Number
content: E386579-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sign
physicalDescription: label: Width - Sign Fragment 2
content: 121 cm
label: Height - Sign Fragment 2
content: 75 cm