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Waa-Pa-Shaw, a Sioux chief

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Image ID

807112


Item data

Title

Waa-Pa-Shaw, a Sioux chief

Collection

Wallach Division Picture Collection
Indians -- North America -- Plains

Names

J.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment (Printer)
Greenough, Frederick W. (Publisher)

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1838

Library Location

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC INDIA-Nor-P

Subjects

Indians of North America -- Great Plains
Dakota Indians -- Men -- Great Plains
Tribal chiefs -- United States
Dakota Indians -- Great Plains
Waa-Pa-Shaw

Genres

Portrait Prints

Notes

Statement Of Responsibility: Printed on border: "Printed by F.W. Greenough, Philad." "Printed and coloured at I.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment no. 94 Walnut St." "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1838 by F.W. Greenough, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penn."
Source Note: History of the Indian tribes of North America with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs : with 120 portraits from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War at Washington. (Philadelphia : Biddle, 1836-1844) Hall, James (1793-1868), Author. McKenney, Thomas Loraine (1785-1859), Author.

Physical Description

Lithographs
Foxing on image.
Extent: 1 print : col. ; 36 x 29 cm. (14 x 11 1/4 in.)

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17620571
Barcode: 33333159345483
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): cba2ba70-c554-012f-fdf6-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1838

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Waa-Pa-Shaw, a Sioux chief" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1838. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/cba2ba70-c554-012f-fdf6-58d385a7bc34

APA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1838). Waa-Pa-Shaw, a Sioux chief Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/cba2ba70-c554-012f-fdf6-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Waa-Pa-Shaw, a Sioux chief" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 19, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/cba2ba70-c554-012f-fdf6-58d385a7bc34

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