Black Crow

Charles Milton Bell (1848-1893)

Date

Nov. 14, 1877
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Albumen silver print
Dimensions

Image: 7 1/2 x 5 in.
Mount: 8 7/16 x 5 15/16 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
l.l. in image: Ponco.8.
Mount Veso:
u.c. to u.r. printed on paper label: 1085. KHA-KA-SAPA. Black Crow. PONCA. \ Age, 52 years; height, 5 feet 8 1/2 inches; circumfer- \ ence of head, 22 1/2 inches; circumference of chest, 39 1/2 \ inches.
u.l. to u.r. printed on paper label: Ka-ghe-sa-be, Black Crow- \ Crow black \ Chief of the Ni-ka-pa shna (Deer and Elk) gens. \ Father to Gi-ban-bi (Robert Clarkson), whom he \ placed in the Ponka mission house in 1872. An \ interesting account of the behaviour of this \ worthy man appeared in a letter from Mrs. M. S. \ Stanforth (associated with her son Rev. J. Owen Dorsey \ in the Ponka mission, 1871-3) to Wm. Welsh of Phila. \ Pa. in 1872, pub. in the Spirit of Missions, N.Y.
c. in graphite: 981. \ Neg. No. 4193
Collection Name

Bureau of American Ethnology Collection
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

P1967.2932
Copyright

Public domain

Location: Off view

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