Not Afraid of the Pawnee--Yanktonai Sioux Chief
1900 · hand-colored photograph
16 × 13 in. (40.6 × 33 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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De Lancey Gill
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De Lancey Gill was an American painter and ethnographic illustrator whose portraits documented Native American tribal leaders and cultures in the early twentieth century. Working primarily in oil and watercolor, Gill produced hundreds of commissioned portraits for the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology, creating a visual archive of Indigenous peoples during a period of rapid cultural displacement. His methodical approach to physiognomy and attention to detail established him as a key figure in ethnographic documentation, though his work must be understood within the problematic frameworks of early anthropology. Gill's technical precision and compositional clarity made his images influential in both scientific and public contexts.
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- 1899 · Smithsonian · 5 provWikidata·titleWikidata·mediumWikidata·year_createdWikidata·primary_image_urlWikidata·artwork_type
- 1898 · Smithsonian · 5 provWikidata·titleWikidata·mediumWikidata·year_createdWikidata·primary_image_urlWikidata·artwork_type
- 1888 · Smithsonian · 5 provWikidata·titleWikidata·mediumWikidata·year_createdWikidata·primary_image_urlWikidata·artwork_type
- 1894 · Smithsonian · 4 provWikidata·titleWikidata·year_createdWikidata·primary_image_urlWikidata·artwork_type
- 1888 · Smithsonian · 3 provWikidata·titleWikidata·year_createdWikidata·primary_image_url
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- 1888 · Smithsonian · 3 provWikidata·titleWikidata·year_createdWikidata·primary_image_url
- 1900 · Smithsonian · 2 provWikidata·titleWikidata·primary_image_url
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Washington, D.C., United States
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