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Object Number 2004.29.5769
Display Title Portrait of Wa-kan-o-zhan-zhan (Medicine Bottle), prisoner at Fort Snelling
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Sioux, Kaposia Division? / Gift of William A. Johnson."; printed on photograph: "Wa-kan-o-zhan-zhan, (Medicine Bottle,) Engaged in the Massacre of 1862. Prisoner at Fort Snelling. Photographed by Whitney, June 17, 1864."
Keywords
  • Social and Political Figure
  • Ethnographic
  • Proper Name
Subject
  • Man
  • Prisoner
Department Photographic
Date June 17, 1864
Artist Whitney's Gallery
Culture
  • Sioux
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States
Additional Geographic Terms High plains;Kaposia division?
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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