Ma-to-nom-pa, Two Grizzly Bears [profile]

William Henry Jackson (1843-1942)

Date

before 1877
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Albumen silver print
Dimensions

Image: 7 1/2 x 5 in.
Mount: 8 1/2 x 6 1/16 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
l.c. in image: L. Yanktonai.3a
Mount Verso:
u.c. printed on paper label: 281. MA-TO-NOM-PA. Two Bears. (Profile.) \ [in graphite] Chief of [printed] LOWER YANKTONAIS.
u.r. in graphite: in 1826
u.c. printed on paper label: Ma-to non-pa, Two Grizzly bears. \ two \ [in graphite] 778.
u.c. to c. in graphite: buried near Standing Rock. N.D. \ Was a supporter of Sitting Bull and \ supplied him with ammunition and flour \ The Yanktonai's were surrounded by \ the 7th Cav. - in 1876 and surrendered \ 2000 head of horses all their guns and \ were left in winter at their camp \ on the Missouri River \ this chief made the surrender \ Neg. 3537-8
Collection Name

Bureau of American Ethnology Collection
Credit Line

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

P1967.3222
Copyright

Public domain

Location: Off view

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