Barnum’s American Museum

Event Information

Venue(s):
Barnum's American Museum [JAN 1842-JUL 1865]

Price: $.25; .15 children under ten

Event Type:
Play With Music, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
27 May 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

28 Sep 1863, All Day

Program Details

3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. (play)
All day and evening (Indian troupe)

With Indian review - songs and dances by Sioux and Winnebago Indian Chiefs, Warriors and Squaws.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Sioux and Winnebago Indian Chiefs, Warriors and Squaws
2)
Edric the Dane; or, The shadow of fate
aka Shadow of fate, The

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 27 September 1863.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 28 September 1863, 7.

     The Indian Troupe will “all be on exhibition at all hours, Day and Evening, and at intervals give various Dances, Songs, and other representations of the PECULIARITIES OF INDIAN LIFE.”

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 30 September 1863.

     Final week of Indian review.