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Portrait of Cut Nose
Object Number 2004.29.5767
Display Title Portrait of Cut Nose
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Sioux, Kaposia Division? / Gift of William A. Johnson."; printed on photograph: "Whitney, St. Paul. Cut Nose, Who in the Massacre of 1862, in Minnesota, murdered 18 Women and Chilren and 5 Men. Entered according to Act of Congress, by J.E. Whitney, in the year 1862, in the Clerk's Office of the U.S. District Court for Minnesota."
Keywords
  • Proper Name
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Portrait
Department Photographic
Date 1862
Artist Whitney's Gallery
Culture
  • Sioux
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States
Additional Geographic Terms High plains;Kaposia division?
Materials Albumen print Carte-de-visit adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 6.35 x 8.89 cm (2 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)
Provenance
Donor Donated by William A. Johnson

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