Portrait of Blackfoot Piegan woman, Julia Wades in the Water
- Local Numbers
- NAA INV.9207000 OPPS NEG.397 B
- Local Note
- Black and white film negative
- Place
- District of Columbia -- Washington
- Topic
- Blackfeet
- Culture
- Blackfoot
- Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)
- Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan)
- Indians of North America -- Great Plains
- See more items in
- Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
- Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Gill, De Lancey W.
- Biographical / Historical
- A full blood Piegan of the Grease Melters' Band. The wife of Wades in the Water. In earlier years she was married to a white man who was chief clerk at the Blackfoot Agency. With her husband, she was of the group of Indians who entertained tourists at Glacier National Park. She spoke English. She was still living on the Blackfoot Reservation in the summer of 1947. Julia Wades in the Water's portrait, in full color, by the artist, Weinold Reiss, appeared on the Indian calendar of the Great Northern Railway for 1946. (J.C. Ewers, U.S. National Museum, January 1949).
- Extent
- 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
- Date
- JUN 1923
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Photographs
- Genre/Form
- Photographs
