Object Details
- Local Numbers
- NAA MS.2372, Box 11
- Local Note
- These drawings were intermixed with other Hidatsa drawings, but appear to have been created on a different occasion.
- Place
- United States -- Dakota Territory -- Fort Berthold Agency.
- United States -- North Dakota -- Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.
- Album Information
- MS 2372-11 LW-000
- Creator
- Lean Wolf.
- Collector
- Hoffman, Walter James, 1846-1899.
- Collection Creator
- Mallery, Garrick, 1831-1894
- Topic
- Language and languages -- Documentation
- Creator
- Lean Wolf.
- Collector
- Hoffman, Walter James, 1846-1899.
- Culture
- Minitari (Hidatsa)
- Indians of North America -- Great Plains
- See more items in
- MS 2372 Garrick Mallery Collection on Sign Language and Pictography
- MS 2372 Garrick Mallery Collection on Sign Language and Pictography / Series 3: Materials on Pictographs and Petroglyphs / 3.3: Correspondence, drawings, and photographs filed by Native American tribe or subject / Hidatsa / Manuscript 2372: Box 11: Hidatsa
- Biographical / Historical
- Lean Wolf, also known as Poor Wolf. Name transcribed as Tce-caq-a-daq-a-qic by Mallery, who identified him as a chief of the Hidatsa. He was reportedly born in 1820, and was part of a delegation photographed in Washington in 1880. Walter J. Hoffman, 1846-1899, was a BAE employee who assisted Garrick Mallery with his study of sign language. He visited Fort Berthold, Dakota in 1881 to collect data.
- Extent
- 13 Drawings (visual works) (graphite, colored pencil, and ink on cardboard and paper, 12 x 16 cm.)
- Date
- 1881
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Drawings (visual works)
- Ledger drawings
- Collection Citation
- Manuscript 2372, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Bibliography
- Illustrated Pl. LIII and mentioned p. 740, "Picture Writing of the American Indians" by Garrick Mallery, 10th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology for 1888-89, Washington DC 1893.
- Genre/Form
- Ledger drawings
- Scope and Contents
- Scenes of hunting, warfare, and village life representing events in the life of the artist, as identified in captions on verso of many images. Drawn on blank backs of ruled, printed index cards.
- Collection Restrictions
- Manuscript 2372 is open for research. Access to Manuscript 2372 requires an appointment.
- Record ID
- ebl-1633543215924-1633543216353-2
