Paha-Uza-Tanka

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Portrait of Paha-uza-tanka

 Digital Image

Identifier: 1998-004-11.jpg

Dates: 1862

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Portrait of Paha-uza-tanka, 1862

 Item

Identifier: 1998.004.11

Scope and Contents

Studio portrait of Paha-uza-tanka (English name: The Great Scalp-taker), pictured seated, wrapped in a blanket and wearing a cap with 16 feathers. The number of feathers in his headdress alledgedly denotes the number of scalps taken.

Dates: 1862

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Roger Blais collection of Sioux Uprising of 1862 photographs

Roger Blais collection of Sioux Uprising of 1862 photographs

 Item

Identifier: 1998-004

Scope and Contents

A collection of souvenier cartes-de-visite depicting studio portraite of Native Americans, some of where were, or may have been involved in the Dakota War of 1862.

Dates: approximately 1862

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

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Type

Archival Object 1

Digital Record 1

Collection 1

 

Subject

Carte de visite photographs. 2

Photography -- Printing processes -- Albumen 2

Castle Rock (Minn.). 1

Dakota Indians -- Biography. 1

Dakota Indians -- Photographs. 1

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Dakota Indians -- Wars, 1862-1865. 1

Indians of North America -- Minnesota 1

Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1862-1865. 1

Massacres -- Minnesota River Valley (S.D. and Minn.) 1

New Ulm (Minn.) -- History 1

Special Collections -- Photographs -- Blais, Roger 1

Special Collections -- Photographs -- Upton, B.F. 1

Special Collections -- Photographs -- Whitney, Joel Emmons 1

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