IDNO

P.8735.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Crow”. [typed text]

Group of five Crow chiefs and headmen sitting in front of a wooden building, possibly the old mission building in which the agent had his headquarters. The men are identified as being (from left to right): Etcha-re-kash-cha-rach-a (Poor Elk) holding a pipe; Kam-ne-but-see (Black Foot) holding a tom-a-hawk; A-pats-ke (Long Ears); I-Sa-Seesh or In-Tee-Us (He Shows His Face) wearing a peace medal, possibly the Andrew Johnson medal issued in 1865; Chief Mit-Chooash or Mit-Hu-A (Old Onions or Onion).

Place

N America; United States of America; Montatna; Yellowstone River; Shields River; Crow Reservation

Cultural Affliation

?Crow Indian; ?Plains Indian; ?Native North American

Named Person

Etcha-re-kash-cha-rach-a (Poor Elk); Kam-ne-but-see (Black Foot); A-pats-ke (Long Ears); I-Sa-Seesh or In-Tee-Us (He Shows His Face); Chief Mit-Chooash or Mit-Hu-A (Old Onions or Onion)

Photographer

Jackson, William Henry

Collector / Expedition

Date

1871

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Image: The group print and individual portraits of the men are held at the National Anthropological Archive, Smithsonian, with the following information:
Group photograph - Creator: Jackson, William Henry
Title: Group of Crow men 1871
Contained in: Glass Negatives of Indians (Collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology) 1850s-1930s
Phy. Description: 1 8x10 in photograph Black and white glass negative
Summary: Left to right: Etcha-re-kash-cha-rach-a (Poor Elk), Kam-ne-but-see (Black Foot), A-pats-ke (Long Ears), I-sa-seesh (He shows his face), Mit-cho-ash (Old Onion). Chiefs and head men at old Crow Agency on Yellowstone River, 1871. Jackson says "In-tee-us" (He shows his face) also Indian Office says Mit-hu-a, Old Onion.
Cite as: Negative 3418, Smithsonian Institution National Anthropological Archives
Local Notes: Blackmore Collection #: A14-1430. Jackson Cat. 949.
I-Sa-seesh -"He shows his face" is wearing a peace medal, possibly the Andrew Johnson medal issued in 1865, JCS.
Culture: Crow
Subject-Name: Etcha-re-kash-cha-rach-a (Poor Elk)
Kam-ne-but-se (Black Foot)
A-pats-ke (Long Ears)
I-sa-seesh (He shows his face)
Mit-cho-ash or Mit-hu-a (Old Onion)
Subject-Name: Hayden Survey, 1871
Local Number: NAA INV 10000237; OPPS NEG 3418

Portrait of man second from left - Title: Chief Kam-Ne-But-Se (Blackfoot) in Partial Native Dress and Holding Pipe-tomahawk; Near Wood Frame Building 1871
Local Number: NAA INV 06569900; OPPS NEG 03378 A

Portrait of man second from right - Title: I-Sa-Seesh or In-Tee-Us (He Shows His Face) in Partial Native Dress with Peace Medal, Near Wood Frame Building 1871
Local Number: NAA INV 06571800; OPPS NEG 03392

Portrait of man on right - Title: Chief Mit-Chooash or Mit-Hu-A (Old Onions or Onion) in Native Dress, Near Wood Frame Building 1871
Local_Number: NAA INV 06571900; OPPS NEG 03393
[Source: http://siris-archives.si.edu, JD 12/4/2007]

Related Image: In William Henry Jackson’s list of photographs, image 949 is captioned ‘Group of Chiefs and Headmen’. Image 947 is ‘In-Tee-Us. He Shows His Face.’ Image 948 is ‘Mit-Choo-Ash. Old Onion’. An added note states “The last four pictures were made at the old agency of the Crows, on the Yellowstone, near Shields River, in 1871. The following were also made at the same place and time, and represent the old mission buildings (lately destroyed by fire), in which the agent had his headquarters; their tents and manner of living, and their mode of burial. (950)” [Source: www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/MSC/ToMsc550/MsC539_JacksonPhotos/Jacksonphotographs.htm, JD 12/4/2007]

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