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Jane Adams Patterson wearing Sioux costume

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GUSN-284002

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Description

This photograph contains harmful imagery of a white woman appropriating Sioux costume.

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Jane Adams Patterson wearing a Sioux Indian costume purchased by the Patterson family at Fort Laramie ca. 1868. Identification of this item came from Michael Burr Patterson (b. 1936 in Wayland), grandson of the subject of the photograph.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Sioux
costume (mode of fashion)
black-and-white photographs

Physical Description

1 photograph

Collection Code

MS026

Collection Name

Sears and Cutting families papers

Reference Code

MS026.TMP.AWC.006.064

Places

Wayland (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Cutting, Alfred Wayland (Photographer)

Material Type

black-and-white photographs

Other People

Patterson, Jane Adams, ca. 1870-

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Component

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