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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
- Proper Name
- Ethnographic
Subject
- Prisoner
- Man
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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