In 1851, artist Frank Blackwell Mayer drew a portrait of Little Crow when he traveled to Traverse des Sioux in Minnesota Territory. Dakota Chief Ta-oya-te-duta, known in English as Little Crow, sketched at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traverse_des_Sioux" class="extiw" title="en:Traverse des Sioux">Traverse des Sioux</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Territory" class="extiw" title="en:Minnesota Territory">Minnesota Territory</a>
<p>The artist describes Little Crow as follows:
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<dl><dd>The chief [Little Crow] is a man of some forty five years of age &amp; of a very determined and ambitious nature, but withal exceedingly gentle and dignified in his deportment.  His face is full of intelligence when he is in conversation &amp; his whole bearing is that of a gentleman.  <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=lhbum&amp;fileName=17122/lhbum17122.db&amp;recNum=135&amp;itemLink=r%3Fammem%2Flhbumbib%3A@field%28NUMBER%2B@band%28lhbum%2B17122%29%29&amp;linkText=0">[1]</a></dd></dl><dl><dd>[B]eing attired in state[, Little Crow] fulfilled his promise to me by sitting for his portrait.  His headdress was peculiarly rich, a . . . diadem of rich work  rested on his forehead &amp; a profusion of weasel tails fell from this to his back &amp; shoulders.  Two small buffalo horns emerged on either side from this mass of whiteness, &amp; ribbons &amp; a singular ornament of strings of buckskin tied in knots &amp; colored gaily depended in numbers from his head to his shoulders &amp; chest. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=lhbum&amp;fileName=17122/lhbum17122.db&amp;recNum=159&amp;itemLink=r?ammem/lhbumbib:@field(NUMBER+@band(lhbum+17122))&amp;linkText=0">[2]</a></dd></dl>
Frank Blackwell Mayer (1827-1899)
1851
"Frank B. Mayer collection of sketchbooks, drawings, and oil paintings of Sioux Indians during the 1851 treaty negotiations at Traverse des Sioux and Mendota, Minn., 1851-1886," - Carli Digital Collections - <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/digital/collection/nby_eeayer/id/2560/">https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/digital/collection/nby_eeayer/id/2560/</a>