レッド・クラウド、ドッグ・チャイルド、そしてインディアン・カントリーにおけるサムライの「ロング・ナイフ」["Long Knife" of the Samurai in Indian Country]

レッド・クラウド、ドッグ・チャイルド、そしてインディアン・カントリーにおけるサムライの「ロング・ナイフ」[Title: Red Cloud, Dog Child, and the "Long Knife" of the Samurai in Indian Country] By Cesare Marino, Robert Pontsioen, and Paul Michael Taylor.
In this ninth webinar in our "Tuesday mornings in Tokyo" series of Smithsonian-Meiji University webinars, Drs. Cesare Marino, Robert Pontsioen, and Paul Michael Taylor (Smithsonian Institution) speak about "Red Cloud, Dog Child, and the ‘Long Knife’ of the Samurai in Indian Country" ( レッド・クラウド、ドッグ・チャイルド、そしてインディアン・カントリーにおけるサムライの「ロング・ナイフ」).
Series co-hosted by Dr. Paul Michael Taylor (Smithsonian, Asian Cultural History Program) and Dr. Toru Yamada (Meiji University), with generous support from the U.S. Embassy, Tokyo. In English with Japanese sequential translation. First broadcast from Tokyo, June 22, 2021, 10 a.m. The broadcast included live sequentially translated discussion and Q&A following the webinar, moderated by Toru Yamada (Meiji University). Prof. Toru Yamada also provided sequential translation. (Note: zoom image for Toru Yamada shows a photograph of Cesare Marino, because Dr. Marino did not have a webcam/video so his portion was audio only.)
Viewers may cite this webinar by its title, authors, and URL, and publication date June 22, 2021.
Abstract in Japanese (English below): 本報告では、1890年代に撮影された、大草原地帯北部の北米先住民と日本の刀（samurai swords）を撮影した2つの不思議な記録写真を再検討・再評価する。どちらの写真も出版されているが、19世紀の先住民の所有物の中でも解説のない魅力的で奇妙なものとして紹介されている。サウスダコタ州パインリッジ居留地のオグララ・ラコタ族・レッド・クラウド酋長の家の壁に掛けられている刀は、1890年の11月か12月初旬に撮影されたものと推定され、Bleed（1987）が初めて出版したものである。2枚目の写真は、北西騎馬警察（現：王立カナダ騎馬警察：RCMP）の偵察官であったブラックフット族（シクシカ族）のドッグ・チャイルドが所有していた刀で、1890年から1894年の間にアルバータ州グライヘンで撮影されたものであり、Drew（1980）が最初に論じている。本報告では、19世紀の北米先住民の現場で唯一知られているこれら2つの文脈における刀の存在について、その背景と考えられる説明を試みる。
Abstract in English: “Red Cloud, Dog Child, and the "Long Knife" of the Samurai in Indian Country”: This seminar revisits and reassesses two enigmatic archival photographs taken in the 1890s showing Japanese katana, or samurai swords, in situ with American Indians in the northern Great Plains. Both have been published, correctly presented as enticing unexplained oddities in nineteenth-century Indian possession. The katana seen hanging on a wall of the home of Chief Red Cloud of the Oglala Lakota (Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota), which we believe was photographed in November or early December of 1890, was first discussed in print by Bleed (1987). The second photograph shows a katana held by Dog Child of the Blackfoot (Siksika) tribe, formerly a scout for the North-West Mounted Police (later the Royal Canadian Mounted Police), photographed in c. 1890-1894 at Gleichen, Alberta, and first discussed by Drew (1980). We attempt here to provide context and likely explanations for the presence of samurai swords in these two only known nineteenth-century in situ American Indian contexts.
Bio: Dr. Cesare Marino holds a Ph.D. in anthropology and worked as a researcher, staff writer, and bibliographer at the Handbook of North American Indians, Smithsonian Institution. He is now a senior associate at the Asian Cultural History Program, where he focuses on early American Indian and Japanese encounters. He has lectured extensively on American Indian, history, culture, and museum / archival collections. His latest book is titled: The Face of Crazy Horse: The Case for a Tintype Photograph of the Great Lakota Patriot (2018, with P. Abiuso and Francis White Lance). In 2014, he was a visiting lecturer at the Institute for American Studies, Rikkyo University, Tokyo. He is also a life-long student of traditional Shotokan karate-dō.
Bio: Dr. Robert Pontsioen, is a senior researcher in the Smithsonian’s Asian Cultural History Program. He specializes in contemporary craft practice and the role of museums in preserving cultural heritage.
Bio: Dr. Paul Michael Taylor, a research anthropologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, is director of that museum’s Asian Cultural History Program, and serves as Curator of Asian, European, and Middle Eastern Ethnology. He is the author of numerous books, scholarly articles, and online works about the ethnobiology, ethnography, art and material culture of Asia, and about the history of museums and anthropology. He is the curator of over twenty museum exhibitions (including five online virtual exhibitions) and anthropologist consultant for ethnographic films. A broad selection of his publications can be found at: si.academia.ed...
Webinar is based upon a paper by the authors; citation:
Marino, Cesare, Robert Pontsioen, and Paul Michael Taylor
2019 Red Cloud, Dog Child, and the "Long Knife" of the Samurai in Indian Country. Tribal Art v. 23 no. 2, pp. 106-123 (+ Contributor information, p. 8).
This paper can be downloaded (free) from P.M. Taylor's Academia.edu site:www.academia.e...