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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: August 28, 2020
Caption: The People Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (upper left) Swiss artist and Fort Union clerk Rudolph Kurz caught much of the ethnic diversity as fur trade posts in this 1851 sketch. From left to right are Assiniboin chief Le Tout Piqué, Métis interpreter Barriste, Kurz, manager Edwin T. Denig's Assiniboin wives Deer Little Woman and first wife, name unknown (1851 sketch, Rudolph Kurz, Fort Union); (upper right) Fur trade employees. From left to right, the interpreter, the trader, and the engagé. (1851 sketch, Rudolph Kurz, Bellevue, Nebraska); (bottom right) "A charming group of Indian women with their metis children" (painting ca. early 1840s by Father Nicolas Point, J.S.)
Submitted: December 12, 2020, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p556558
File Size: 3.397 Megabytes

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