Chief Little Crow

Autor/Urheber:

Frank Blackwell Mayer

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Quelle:

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Größe:

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Beschreibung:

Dakota Chief Ta-oya-te-duta, known in English as Little Crow, sketched at Traverse des Sioux, Minnesota Territory

The artist describes Little Crow as follows:

The chief [Little Crow] is a man of some forty five years of age & of a very determined and ambitious nature, but withal exceedingly gentle and dignified in his deportment. His face is full of intelligence when he is in conversation & his whole bearing is that of a gentleman. [1]

[B]eing attired in state[, Little Crow] fulfilled his promise to me by sitting for his portrait. His headdress was peculiarly rich, a . . . diadem of rich work rested on his forehead & a profusion of weasel tails fell from this to his back & shoulders. Two small buffalo horns emerged on either side from this mass of whiteness, & ribbons & a singular ornament of strings of buckskin tied in knots & colored gaily depended in numbers from his head to his shoulders & chest. [2]

Kommentar zur Lizenz:

Artist dead more than 100 years; images from 1932 book, copyright of which was not renewed in 28th year; non-renewal confirmed with Minnesota Historical Society. (Book since republished in 1986 as paperback: [4], ISBN 0-87351-195-6; copyright claimed only as to new matter.)

Lizenz:

Public domain

Credit:

With Pen and Paper on the Frontier in 1851: The Diary and Sketches of Frank Blackwell Mayer. Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, 1932, via [3]

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