IDNO

P.8733.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Ta-tan-ka-waaxi. Buffalo Bull Ghost. (face view)” [manuscript in ink].

Half-length frontal portrait of Dakota Yanktonal man, Tatanka Wanaghi or Tatanka Wanagi or Tatanka Wanaxi or Tah-Tun-Ka-We-Nah-Hi (Buffalo Bulls Ghost) or (Bulls Ghost), in partial native dress, with an eagle feather in his hair, braids wrapped in fur, with Andrew Johnson and Martin Van Buren Peace Medals and holding a pipe.

Place

N America; United States of America; District of Columbia; Washington D.C.; (Dakota; Crow Creek)

Cultural Affliation

Dakota Yanktonal

Named Person

Tatanka Wanaghi or Tatanka Wanagi or Tatanka Wanaxi or Tah-Tun-Ka-We-Nah-Hi (Buffalo Bulls Ghost) or (Bulls Ghost)

Photographer

?Bell, Charles Milton

Collector / Expedition

Date

1884

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Bureau of American Ethnology

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Image: Same image held at the National Anthropological Archive, Smithsonian, with the following information:
Creator: Bell, Charles Milton?
Title: Portrait (Front) of Tatanka Wanaghi or Tatanka Wanagi or Tatanka Wanaxi or Tah-Tun-Ka-We-Nah-Hi (Buffalo Bulls Ghost) or (Bulls Ghost) in Partial Native Dress with Andrew Johnson and Martin Van Buren Peace Medals and Holding Pipe 1884
Contained in: Glass Negatives of Indians (Collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology) 1850s-1930s
Phy. Description: 1 004 in x 007 in mounted on 007 in x 009 in photograph Black and white collodion glass negative
Place of creation: DC? Washington?
Cite as: BAE GN 03534A 06592501
Culture: Dakota Yanktonai
Local Number: NAA INV 06592501; OPPS NEG 03534 A
Co-Creator: Hillers, John K?
[Source: http://siris-archives.si.edu, JD 12/4/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 13/4/2007]