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Qui-Wi-Sain-Shish

 Person

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Portrait of Qui-wi-sain-shish
Portrait of Qui-wi-sain-shish

Portrait of Qui-wi-sain-shish, 1862

 Item
Identifier: 1998.004.12
Scope and Contents

Studio portrait of Qui-wi-sain-shish (English name: Bad Boy); Chief of Gull Lake Chippewas. Pictured seated, hair in 2 braids and a blanket draped over one shoulder. Who, to escape the vengeance of the Indians when they discovered his friendship for the whites, in the outbreak of 1862, was obliged to seek protection in Fort Ripley.

Dates: 1862

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

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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