Object Details
- Local Numbers
- NAA INV.10001048 OPPS NEG.55540
- Local Note
- Black and white original film negative
- Creator
- Scott, Hugh Lenox, General
- Topic
- Blackfeet
- Creator
- Scott, Hugh Lenox, General
- Culture
- Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)
- Indians of North America -- Great Plains
- See more items in
- Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
- Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Scott, Hugh Lenox, General
- Biographical / Historical
- 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.
- Extent
- 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
- Date
- 1924
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Photographs
- Genre/Form
- Photographs
- Record ID
- ebl-1628267668517-1628267671428-2
