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National Anthropological Archives
B.H. Gurnsey Photographs
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4671
- Creators:
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Gurnsey, B. H. (Byron H.), 1833-1880
- Dates:
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undated
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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3 Printsmounted
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Photos are of Walking Shooter (Hunkpapa), of Mr Goewey, Jesuit priest at Fort Buford, North Dakota, and of a group of unidentified Indian Women; one print dated 1869, others not dated. Prints are of carte de visite size.
Scope and Contents
Catalog Number 4671: (1) Tribe: Dakota (Hunkpapa) Caption: Walking Shooter or Belly Fat Photographer; Date: Carte de visite [1860's or 70's ?]. (2) "Mr Goewey, Fort Buford, D. T. Jan. 21/69." [Sam Broadbent, in phone correspondence with Division of Ethnology, says Goewey was a Jesuit priest. Probably missionary in Fort Buford area.] B. H. Gurnsey, Sioux City, Iowa. 1869. (3) Unidentified (Plains) Group of Unidentified women. Carte de visite [1860's or 70's].
Administration
Custodial History
Received with an accession of four ethnological specimens (N. M. Accession 249632) from Sam Broadbent, Bureau of the Budget, Smithsonian Institution, 7/8/63. Deposited in Bureau of American Ethnology by W, H. Wedel, Department of Anthropology. Correspondence in N. M. Accession files.
Using the Collection
Citation
Manuscript 4671, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 4671
Local Note
Local Note
Filed: Original Prints, by tribe.
Keywords
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Photographs | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Sioux | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
American Indian -- Plains | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux) | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Indians of North America -- Great Plains | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Walking Shooter | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Belly Fat | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Goewey Mr | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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