IDNO

P.8647.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Man, Whoat-Poo-No-Bats, White Shield. Bur. of Amer. Ethnol.” [typed text]

Frontal portrait of Cheyenne man, Whoak-Poo-No-Bats or Wopohwats (White Shield), in partial native dress with military? or treaty? coat and a large cross.

Place

N America; United States of America; South Dakota; ?Pine Ridge Agency

Cultural Affliation

Southern Cheyenne

Named Person

Whoak-Poo-No-Bats or Wopohwats (White Shield)

Photographer

?Bell, Charles Milton

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1880?

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Image: Image from the same series held at the National Anthropological Archive, Smithsonian, with the following information:
Creator: UNKNOWN
Title: "Whoak-poo-no-bats or White Shield"
Contained in: George V. Allen Photographic Collection 1860s-1930s
Phy. Description: 18 x 10 in. print
Summary: Studio portrait. He was living on the Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota when this picture was taken. He is wearing a large cross and a European style coat.
Cite as: Photo Lot 90-1, number 1345, Smithsonian Institution National Anthropological Archives
Culture: Cheyenne Southern
Subject-Name: Whoak-poo-no-bats Cheyenne; White Shield (Cheyenne)
Local Number: NAA INV 09964300
[Source: http://siris-archives.si.edu, JD 20/4/2007]

Related Image: Same Image held at the National Anthropological Archive, Smithsonian, with the following information:
Creator: Bell, Charles Milton?
Title: Portrait (Front) of Whoak-Poo-No-Bats or Wopohwats (White Shield) in Partial Native Dress with Military Coat and with Ornaments n.d.
Contained in: Glass Negatives of Indians (Collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology) 1850s-1930s
Phy. Description: 1 007 in x 009 in photograph Black and white collodion glass negative
Cite as: BAE GN 00322 06115600
Culture:  Cheyenne
Local Number: NAA INV 06115600; OPPS NEG 00322
[Source: http://siris-archives.si.edu, JD 20/4/2007]