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[View of a Cheyenne village at Big Timbers, in present-day Colorado, with four large tipis standing at the edge of a wooded area. Frame with pemmican or hides hanging at the right; two figures, facing camera, standing to the left of center] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[View of a Cheyenne village at Big Timbers, in present-day Colorado, with four large tipis standing at the edge of a wooded area. Frame with pemmican or hides hanging at the right; two figures, facing camera, standing to the left of center], [between 1853 and 1860] — historic photograph
[View of a Cheyenne village at Big Timbers, in present-day Colorado, with four large tipis standing at the edge of a wooded area. Frame with pemmican or hides hanging at the right; two figures, facing camera, standing to the left of center], [between 1853 and 1860]. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

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Four large tipis stand at the edge of a wooded area at Big Timbers, a cottonwood grove along the Arkansas River that was a well-known gathering place for Cheyenne people, while two figures face the camera just left of center. At the right, a frame holds what the record describes as pemmican or hides. The record credits Solomon Carvalho, photographer on John C. Frémont's 1853 expedition, though the attribution is probable rather than certain. Surviving daguerreotypes of Plains camps from this period are rare.

Created / published[between 1853 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesIdentified as a daguerreotype by Solomon Carvalho of a Plains Indian village in Kansas Territory taken during the Frïemont Expedition in 1853, probably copied by the Mathew Brady studio. This identification was based on the fact that the daguerreotype was acquired by the Library with other daguerreotypes from the Brady studio and that Brady was hired by Frïemont to copy Carvalho's daguerreotypes on wet plate negatives. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Print the legend : photography and the American West / Martha A. Sandweiss. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002. Published in: Many nations: a Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Indian and Alaskan native peoples of the United States / edited by Patrick Frazier and the Publishing Office. Washington : Library of Congress, 1
SubjectsIndians of North America--1840-1860. Tipis--1840-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,111 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
Reference531_View_of_a_Cheyenne_vill_1853

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