Post by Dietmar on Dec 28, 2022 9:47:38 GMT -5
Earlier this year I´ve came upon a previously unknown portrait taken by Stanley J. Morrow in the archives of University of Michigan Library. It is listed as: “Sioux man. / Photographed and Published by S.J. Morrow, Yankton, Dakota”
The inscription on the picture is barely readable, but I thought than that this must be a portrait of Lower Assiniboine chief Red Stone, who with his people settled at Fort Peck reservation in the 1870s.
Some time later Koos van Oostrom mailed me after having exactly the same thought. He provided some substantial evidence about the identity of this Red Stone as an Assiniboine:
Biographical paper on Red Stone:
www.scribd.com/document/207528871/Chief-Red-Stone-Hoonga-Ea-Sha
There’s some very faint pencil writing in the yellow border of the card, the legible part of which reads as: “Red Stone, Head Chief of the”:
The shirt this man is wearing (with its narrow neck piece, large quilled disk and long fringe) has “Assiniboin" written all over it:
(photo detail enhanced by Koos)
Note also the multi-quill plaited shoulder strips.
Some retouche on the quilled disk reveals a distinctly Assiniboin design pattern (My reconstruction of the design might be incomplete):
For comparison: Two 1833 watercolor paintings of Assiniboin men by Karl Bodmer.
An unnamed Assiniboin:
Noapeh:
Although the quilled disk of Red Stone’s shirt is quite large, it’s proportionally smaller than those on the 1833 shirts in Bodmer’s paintings:
This early Assiniboin shirt (again: narrow neck piece, long sleeve fringe) has a comparable disk design:
Morrow also photographed Red Stone`s camp:
“Red Stone`s Camp – Jerking Venison”
Koos enhanced the photo and added this:
The tipi in Red Stone’s camp is painted with bears - the hind legs of one of the bears are visual behind the travois rack:
A Morrow photo of probably the same tipi shows the bear painted at the other side:
In this picture Koos enhanced the bear:
The inscription on the picture is barely readable, but I thought than that this must be a portrait of Lower Assiniboine chief Red Stone, who with his people settled at Fort Peck reservation in the 1870s.
Some time later Koos van Oostrom mailed me after having exactly the same thought. He provided some substantial evidence about the identity of this Red Stone as an Assiniboine:
Biographical paper on Red Stone:
www.scribd.com/document/207528871/Chief-Red-Stone-Hoonga-Ea-Sha
There’s some very faint pencil writing in the yellow border of the card, the legible part of which reads as: “Red Stone, Head Chief of the”:
The shirt this man is wearing (with its narrow neck piece, large quilled disk and long fringe) has “Assiniboin" written all over it:
(photo detail enhanced by Koos)
Note also the multi-quill plaited shoulder strips.
Some retouche on the quilled disk reveals a distinctly Assiniboin design pattern (My reconstruction of the design might be incomplete):
For comparison: Two 1833 watercolor paintings of Assiniboin men by Karl Bodmer.
An unnamed Assiniboin:
Noapeh:
Although the quilled disk of Red Stone’s shirt is quite large, it’s proportionally smaller than those on the 1833 shirts in Bodmer’s paintings:
This early Assiniboin shirt (again: narrow neck piece, long sleeve fringe) has a comparable disk design:
Morrow also photographed Red Stone`s camp:
“Red Stone`s Camp – Jerking Venison”
Koos enhanced the photo and added this:
The tipi in Red Stone’s camp is painted with bears - the hind legs of one of the bears are visual behind the travois rack:
A Morrow photo of probably the same tipi shows the bear painted at the other side:
In this picture Koos enhanced the bear:
