Three quarter length portrait of a man with braided hair and feathers in his hair
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

A sepia toned photograph shows a man standing facing us with a proud bearing. He has medium dark skin, dark eyes and lines on his face. His long dark hair is parted in the middle and twisted into two braids that hang in front of his chest. He wears a headdress of four broad, tall feathers at the back of his head. He wears a black jacket and a black bow tie over a white collared shirt, as he holds a blanket wrapped around his legs and waist. In the crook of his arm he holds a short wooden staff decorated at one end with a feather.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2002.2952
People
Negative by McClees Gallery, American (19th century)
Print possibly by Addis Gallery, American (active 2nd half of the 19th century)
Title
Hin-han-du-ta, The Red Owl. A Chief of the Mde-wa-kan-ton Sioux [Lakota]. Dakota.
Other Titles
Former Title: The Red Owl: A Chief of the Mdewakanton Sioux
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1858 (negative); c. 1870 (print)
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/156422

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 19 x 15 cm (7 1/2 x 5 7/8 in.)
mount: 22.5 x 16 cm (8 7/8 x 6 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto of mount, lower edge, in black ink: Hin-han' Du'-ta (The Red Owl)
    A Chief of the Mdewakanton Sioux

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2.2002.2952
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/04/2020 - 11/08/2021

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