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Watawebuckana

Wa-ta-we-buck-ana or Commanding General


Creator: Catlin, George, 1796-1872

Title: Wa-ta-we-buck-ana or Commanding General

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:

Bio / His Notes: Son of Neu-mon-ya (Walking Rain). Visited England with his father and G. H. C. Melody. Born about 1834.

Organization: Item

Provenance: Negative copy from painting by Catlin (probably 1844 ?)

Cite as: Negative 3896, Smithsonian Institution National Anthropological Archives

Culture: Iowa

Form / Genre: Photographs

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

Link: Image at the Smithsonian


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