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Reason
High historic and cultural value. The image shows a Hidatsa Indian man dancing the "Dog Dance" while dressed in traditional dancing regalia. The image refers to the man as Minnetaree, a Mandan name commonly used when referring to Hidatsa people.
Support edit, assuming the white is its natural color. I'm somewhat surprised that the LoC digitization may not be faithful, but perhaps the paper just faded away or otherwise aged in such manner.
Brandmeistertalk 09:38, 31 January 2014 (UTC)reply
There's a version with a colour bar that shows it's definitely white paper. That version is otherwise a much worse version, but is enough to check. The LoC is actually really bad about colour. Adam Cuerden(
talk) 12:16, 31 January 2014 (UTC)reply
Support. Strong degree of educational value. — Cirt (
talk) 05:52, 27 January 2014 (UTC)reply
Support culturally important. Support edit.--
Theparties (
talk) 09:28, 29 January 2014 (UTC)reply
Weak oppose While this image deserves promotion in the end, it's fairly obvious something weird is going on with the paper - pink and grey are not natural colours for it; about 99% of lithographs were printed on white paper, and the fraction printed on two-tone paper is insignificant. I'll do an edit. Adam Cuerden(
talk) 04:37, 30 January 2014 (UTC)reply
For the record, it's looking good, just removing some reflections on the dark areas. (Specifically, the red cloth in the lower right of the figure - it has a LOT of white reflection spots, that I'm removing at 800% zoom. But that's the only bit of restoration left.) I could use someone with Photoshop proper to do some final vignetting fixes - Photoshop makes those a lot easier - but the cleanup's almost done. Adam Cuerden(
talk) 09:41, 30 January 2014 (UTC)reply
Support edit - I'm fairly sure we haven't gone too far astray in the restoration, and since the last such sketch was edited before promotion I think we should remain consistent. —
Crisco 1492 (
talk) 09:44, 31 January 2014 (UTC)reply
And I did check it against a copy that had a colour bar. It's reasonably similar to what I got from the colour bar. Not exact, but then, the copy with the colour bar is really bad, and there's a tendency for that to lead to reduced colour fidelity, even with a bar. It's easier with a better scan, of course. =) Adam Cuerden(
talk) 10:16, 31 January 2014 (UTC)reply
Support edit Looks great to me, the colours are much brighter and the white background looks much better and authentic to the original. Thanks.
MatGTAM (
talk) 04:50, 31 January 2014 (UTC)reply
Support edit, I agree it looks much better. Nice work! Cheers, — Cirt (
talk) 16:55, 31 January 2014 (UTC)reply
Support Edit - great restoration work by
Adam and
Crisco --
Godot13 (
talk) 20:15, 31 January 2014 (UTC)reply
Promoted File:Moenitarri warrior in the costume of the dog danse 0056v.jpg --
ArmbrustTheHomunculus 22:42, 2 February 2014 (UTC)reply