IDNO

P.8643.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Peta-la-sha-ra, Man-and-chief. Pawnee. Amer. Bur. of Ethnol.” [typed text]

On Manual Listing: “Peta-la-shalra, Man-and-chief. Pawnee. Amer. Bur. of Ethnol.”

Full-length seated portrait of Peta-La-Sha-Ra (Manchief The Younger), a Pawnee Chief, in native dress with bear claw necklace, headdress and ornaments and holding pipe.
The portrait was probably made during Peta-La-Sha-Ra's visit as an American Indian Delegate to Washington D.C. in 1857-58.

Place

N America; United States of America; District of Columbia; Washington D.C.

Cultural Affliation

Native American; Pawnee; Skiri

Named Person

Peta-La-Sha-Ra (Manchief The Younger)

Photographer

McClees, James E.; Shindler, Antonio Zeno

Collector / Expedition

Date

1858

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Photographer: Probably McClees photograph copied by Shindler. [JD 28/9/2007]

Related Image: Same image held at the Smithsonian Museum, ref. NAA INV 06249400, with the following information:
"Portrait (Front) of Peta-La-Sha-Ra (Manchief The Younger) in Native Dress with Bear Claw Necklace, Headdress and Ornaments and Holding Pipe 1858.
CREATOR: James E. McClees Studio
CULTURE: Pawnee Indians, Indians of North America Great Plains
DATE: 1858
NOTES: Photo originally attributed to Antonio Zeno Shindler. According to Paula Fleming (Native American Photographs at the Smithsonian: the Shindler Catalogue, 2003), Shindler only printed the image for the Smithsonian exhibit. "In the late 1860s, he was the propietor of the Addis Studio, formerly the McClees gallery, and had access to the 1857-1858 negatives."
LOCAL NUMBER: NAA INV 06249400
SEE MORE ITEMS IN: Glass Negatives of Indians (Collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology) 1850s-1930s." [Source: http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=James+E+McClees+Studio, JD 8/19/2016]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 18/9/2008]