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Object Number 59-8-10/100257.1.2
Display Title Profile portrait of an Akansa man
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Akansa or Quawpaw, Hunta, Wakunta. Plains. Contact print for large plates supplementing Vol. XIX of Edward S. Curtis' "The North American Indian" (1930) from the book, "The Quapaw are another Siouan tribe otherwise known as Akansa, from which the Arkansas river and state derive their name. Vol. XIX Plate 681 -105-"
Keywords
  • Proper Name
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Man
Department Photographic
Date before 1930
Artist Edward S. Curtis
Culture
  • Quapaw
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States
Dimensions Overall: 20.0025 × 15.5575 cm (7 7/8 × 6 1/8 in.)

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