www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndirs/collections/photography/mss19428.jpgNative Americans by Sakakawea statue, Bismarck, N.D.
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Title: Native Americans by Sakakawea statue, Bismarck, N.D. [graphic].
Imprint: [Bismarck : Slorby, 192-?]
Medium: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
Part of: North Dakota Masonic Grand Lodge Photograph Collection (Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU, Fargo)
Description: Three Native Americans dressed in traditional Indian clothes and headdresses standing in front of statue of Sakakawea. Mr. Kitchen shaking hand with Indian next to him and Welch on right side. Behind Welch is what appears another Native American but not in Indian dress. Two Indians holding pipes.
Historical Note: The 12 foot-high bronze statue of Sakakawea and her baby son Baptiste was designed by Chicago artist Leonard Crunelle and dedicated on the North Dakota capitol grounds on October 13, 1910. The project was begun in 1905 by the North Dakota Federation of Women's Clubs. On October 16, 2003 a replica of the statue became part of the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Notes: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographer taken from another image taken at same time, located in same file.
"Indian at left-Okute Wakan-'Shoot Holy;' Middle Indian-'Feather Necklace;' Right, Ocanku Tawa-'His Road;' All Yanktonaise of the Dakotah (Sioux). White man at right-A.B. Welch-'Mato Watakpe' or Charging Bear;' white man on left of picture-Hon. Kitchen, Com. of Agri. & Labor"--Handwritten on sheet attached to back of print.
Time Period: 1920-1929.
Location: Bismarck (N.D.)
Subjects: Sculpture--North Dakota--Bismarck
Yanktonai Indians--North Dakota--Bismarck
Indians of North America--Costume & dress--North Dakota--Bismarck
Sacagawea--Statues
Welch, Alfred Burton, 1874-1945
Kitchen, Joseph A. (Joseph Ambrose), 1878-1942
Corporate Name: Slorby Studio (Bismarck, N.D.)
Record Number: VM03-021794
Call Number: Mss 1942.8.6
Videodisc Number: RS-1-10138
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