Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hidatsa Dog Dancer

Hidatsa Dog Dancer

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Original – Hidatsa warrior from the crazy dog society performing the dog dance in traditional regalia. Other tribes, most notably the Cheyenne, also have a dog society who were noted for wearing the same style headdress.

Edit by Adam and Crisco 1492: Lots and lots of fixes.

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.
Articles in which this image appears: Hidatsa people, Karl Bodmer
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Traditional
Creator: Karl Bodmer

Support as nominator --MatGTAM (talk) 22:41, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
~~Support~~ Interesting. Brandmeister^talk 11:59, 24 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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. Brandmeister^talk 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]
Edit prepared, support Edit Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 08:27, 31 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 --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 22:42, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]