Creator: St Memin

Title: An Indian man - profile bust

Contained in: Glass Negatives of Indians (Collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology) 1850s-1930s

Description: 1 8x10 in photograph Black and white copy negative

Digital Reference:

Summary: He wears his hair banged and long behind, his ear is mutilated and the earring is a silver wheel. Inscribed in St Memin's handwriting "Indien des Iowas des Missouri."

Organization: Item

Provenance: Reproduced from crayon sketch (Made July, 1804). St. Memin, size 16" x 22", pink paper.

Location of Original: Original owned by the New York Historical Society.

Cite as: Negative 3924 C, Smithsonian Institution National Anthropological Archives

Restrictions: Credit to be given to the New York Historical Society if published. See correspondence Smithsonian Institution Files, 6/4/24.

Culture: Iowa of the Missouri

Form / Genre: Photographs

Repository Loc: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland

Link: Image at the Smithsonian