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National Anthropological Archives
MS 2209 Notes on Chief Washakie's Robe
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS2209
- Creators:
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Wertz, John T.Wertz, Robert C.Wertz, Melvin A.
- Dates:
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1898
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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2 Pages
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Includes Key to Washakie's pictographs, "Obtained from Chief Washakie (his son Dick acting as interpreter) by Col. John T. Wertz...." Jan. 28, 1897. Manuscript document signed: J. K. M. 9 pages in leatherbound volume. Hand-colored photograph by Melvin A. Wertz of pictographs on elk-skin robe. 1 print. Cover from box of "Washakie" cigars, with mounted photograph of Washakie.
Administration
Custodial History
Received by Bureau of American Ethnology from Melvin A. Wertz, brother of Col. John T. Wertz, with letter of October 4, 1916, see also letter of M. A. Wertz to Bureau of American Ethnology June 19, 1916. Correspondence in Bureau of American Ethnology correspondence file.
Using the Collection
Citation
Manuscript 2209, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 2209
Local Note
Local Note
The portrait of Washakie on the cigar box cover is the same as BAE Negative Number 1664 by Baker and Johnston, Evanston, Wyoming. The photograph of the robe was copied (1/72) as NAA Negative Number 72-299.
Local Note
manuscript document
Keywords
| Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Shoshoni Indians | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Clothing -- robe | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Shoshone | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Pictographs | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Photographs | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Umatilla | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Shoshone | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Indians of North America -- Great Basin | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Indians of North America -- Plateau | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Washakie, approximately 1804-1900 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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