Which description below best captures the image Chief John Ross projects in the
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Which description below best captures the image Chief John Ross projects in the portrait, Document 2?
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an uneducated and degraded member of a weak and vanishing society
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Print shows John Ross, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, with right hand on a paper that states "Protest and Memorial of the Cherokee Nation Sept. 1836."
Portraits are created with thought and purpose, unlike the candid photos that we in the twenty-first century are familiar with. Therefore, this portrait of Cherokee Chief John Ross needs to be understood as portraying a deliberate image. The Indian chief is clothed in "western" clothes and is posed with an important document, "Protest and memorial of the Cherokee Nation, September 1836," much in the manner of American and European statesmen of the day.
SOURCE: Title: John Ross, a Cherokee chief / drawn, printed & coloured at the Lithographic & Print Colouring Establishment, 94 Walnut St. Creator(s): Bowen, John T., approximately 1801-1856?, lithographer Date Created/Published: Philada. : Published by Daniel Rice & James G. Clark, c1843. Medium: 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored ; 41.5 x 34.5 cm (sheet) Reproduction Number: LC USZC4-3156 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-12857 (b&w film copy neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: PGA - McKenney & Hall--John Ross ... (B size) [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
a distinguished and articulate leader able to straddle the cultures of his Native American world and that of the white manExplanation / Answer
The correct answer is Option A. The description, “a distinguished and articulate leader able to straddle the cultures of his Native American world and that of the white man” successfully captures the image.
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