"Painting the Lodge Poles"
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- OPPS NEG.T9818
- Local Note
- Number 9816 on original pink list.
- Negative
- Creator
- Dorsey, George Amos
- Collector
- Tilton, Willis G.
- Names
- Bull-Tongue
- Little Hawk
- Collection Collector
- Tilton, Willis G.
- Place
- Oklahoma -- Eagle City
- Creator
- Dorsey, George Amos
- Collector
- Tilton, Willis G.
- Culture
- Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
- Indians of North America -- Great Plains
- See more items in
- Willis G. Tilton collection of photographs of Native Americans
- Extent
- 1 Item (photographic negative)
- Date
- 1903
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Photo Lot 89-8, Willis G. Tilton collection of photographs of Native Americans, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Bibliography
- Reproduced in FMAS, Pub. 103, Volume IX, Number 2, plate XXXVI (top). Above quoted material from text, page 116.
- Scope and Contents
- After Bull-Tongue measures the width of the band to be painted, Lodge-maker "rubbed his hands in the black paint, rubbed them together and made four passes toward the pole. Then he first lightly rubbed the pole at this point and then painted a band entirely around the pole."
- Collection Restrictions
- The collection is open for research. Access to the collection requires an appointment.
- Related Materials
- Related negatives in the Field Museum of Natural History, Photography Department, Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605-2496
- Record ID
- ebl-1635868190971-1635868191104-2
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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