Standing Buffalo or Tatanka nazin

Joel E. Whitney (1822-1886), A. Zeno Shindler (1823-1899)

Date

1869, ca. 1862
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Albumen silver print
Dimensions

Image: 5 1/2 x 4 in.
Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 1/16 in.
Mount: 8 7/16 x 6 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
l.c. in image: Santee.15.
Mount Recto:
l.l. in red ink: Ta-tan-ka ha-zhin \ Buffalo bull standing
l.r. in red ink: Sisseton Dakota
Mount Verso:
u.c. printed on paper label: 250. TA-TAN'KA-NA-ZIN. Standing Buffalo.
u.l. to u.r. printed on paper label: 250- Sisseton Dakota. [in graphite] (?) \ [printed] Ta-tan-ka Na-zhin. \ Buffalo bull Standing \ Last great Chief of the Sisseton Dakota. \ When he came to man's estate his father abdicated \ his Chieftainship in favor of his son. At the \ time of the Siouan Indian outbreak in 1862, \ Standing Buffalo was a man in middle llife. (see \ article in Con. to N.A. Ethnology vol. IX Riggs. \ Dakota grammer, texts & Ethnography, pp 196 to 200)
c. in graphite: 1011 \ Neg. no. 3486 ?
Collection Name

Bureau of American Ethnology Collection
Credit Line

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

P1967.3188
Copyright

Public domain

Location: Off view

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