Plains Indian Tribes stereographs

Plains Indian Tribes stereographs, 1882-1921

Overview of the Collection

Title: Plains Indian Tribes stereographs
Dates: 1882-1921 (inclusive)
18821921
Quantity: 115 stereographs (includes 51 dups)
Collection Number: ST 005
Summary: This is an artificially created collection containing one-hundred and fifteen stereographs (black and white except for one tinted image) taken of Plains Indians during the period 1882 and 1921. The images were produced by nine different photographers/publishers/ distributors and were received at MHS from seven separate sources between 1992 and 2015. These stereographs were made for commercial and educational purposes, and were sold all over the world, primarily for the middle-class market. The tribes documented in the collection include the Blackfeet (Siksika, at Glacier National Park), Cheyenne, Crow, Nez Perce, Snake (Shoshoni), and Sioux (Dakota), and the images show scenes of Indian people and their way of life at the end of the nineteenth century in the Dakotas, Idaho, and Montana.
Repository: Montana Historical Society, Library & Archives
Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives
225 North Roberts
PO Box 201201
Helena MT
59620-1201
Telephone: 4064442681
Fax: 4064445297
mhslibrary@mt.gov
Access Restrictions: Collection is open for research.
Languages: No textual or other language materials are included in the collection.

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Identifying stereo producers can be difficult as the relationship between photographer, publisher, and distributor is not always clear and often not documented on the image. In addition, negatives changed ownership as businesses closed. In some cases, the same image was published by more than one company with no credit or copyright indicated. The work of the following photographers/publishers/distributors is included in this collection of stereographs:

American Views

American Views was a New York publisher that produced lower-quality stereographs and duplicated images produced by other companies.

Bailey, Dix & Mead

George Dix and his business partners Bailey and Mead (possibly Josiah J. Mead) were based at Fort Randall, Dakota Territory. They produced a series of photographs of Sitting Bull and his band of Sioux Indians when they were imprisoned at Fort Randall in 1882. It is possible that Bailey, Dix & Mead commissioned photographer William R. Cross from Hot Springs, D.T., to create the photographic series.

Crahan Manufacturing Company

The company was run by Thomas Crahan, and was active in Seattle, Washington, from 1899-1900. Crahan, was an assistant to R. K. Bonine during his Alaska visit to the Klondike in 1899, and as a commercial cinematographer worked on Bonine’s moving pictures for the 1900 Paris International Exposition.

W. R. Cross, Photo

William R. Cross was born in Vermont. During the years 1868-1878 he operated photographic studios in several Nebraska locations including Omaha, Norfolk, Fort Meade, and Niobrara. In 1878 he relocated to Hot Springs, South Dakota, where Cross Studios operated until 1898.

Griffith & Griffith

George W. Griffith began as a door-to-door canvasser for Underwood and Underwood. He left that firm in 1896 to join with his brother as Griffith & Griffith in Philadelphia, which became a major publisher and distributor handling views by H. L. Roberts (Roberts and Fellows), William H. Rau, and M. H. Zahner (Niagara Falls). Griffith & Griffith eventually produced more than 10,000 titles, numerous boxed sets, and thousands of lithographs.

Keystone View Company

The Keystone View Company, located in Meadville, Pennsylvania, was a major stereographic business from 1892 through 1963, producing and distributing both educational and comic/sentimental stereo views and stereoscopes. The company was started by Benneville Lloyd Singley (1864-1938), who had been a salesman for Underwood & Underwood. In 1892, when French Creek overflowed its banks and flooded Meadville, Singley photographed the damage and pasted them on cardboard mounts bearing the name of Keystone View Company. The company expanded rapidly and by 1905, the year it was incorporated, it was the largest business of its kind in the world. All manufacturing was done in Meadville, but branch offices were in New York; St. Louis; San Francisco; Portland, Oregon; Chicago; Toronto, Canada; and London, England. Salesmen and photographers were scattered around the world, and the company was offering 20,000 different views. Between 1915 and 1921, Keystone View Company purchased the negatives of nearly all its competitors, including Underwood & Underwood, and continued to have staff photographers traveling the world. By 1935 Keystone had approximately two million stereoscopic negatives.

Martin’s Gallery of Stereoscopic Views

Martin’s Gallery was in St. Paul, Minnesota, and served as an agent for London Stereoscopic Company, American and Foreign Stereoscopic Company, Upton’s Minnesota Stereographs and Views, and Carbutt’s Stereographs and Views in the North-West.

Underwood & Underwood

The company was founded in 1881 in Ottawa, Kansas, by two brothers, Elmer (1859 - 1947) and Bert Elias (1862 - 1943). They moved to Baltimore and then to New York City in 1891. At one time, Underwood & Underwood was producing 10 million views a year and had developed a successful selling system featuring neighborhood door-to-door canvassing by college students. By 1910, the company had entered the field of news photography, and due to this expansion, stereograph production was reduced until the early years of World War I. Altogether the company produced between 30,000 and 40,000 stereographic titles. In 1920 stereograph production was discontinued and Underwood & Underwood sold its stereographic stock and rights to the Keystone View Company. The company ceased business in the 1940s.

H.C. White & Company

Hawley C. White was a photographer in Vermont and New York. His company was a major producer and distributor during the years 1901-1914, issuing many thousand views and being second only to Keystone and Underwood. White was also an inventor and developed the "perfect stereograph".

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

This collection of stereo views documents the lives of nine Plains Indian tribes living in the western United States during 1882 and 1921. Included are formal portraits of individuals such as Bull Snake and Two Guns White Calf; scenes of their domestic life dwelling in tipi camps, skinning bison, and hauling firewood; scenes of their social life at gatherings like horse races and dance ceremonies; scenes of their culture including dress and decoration. The only formal series in the collection is composed of twenty-four stereographs produced at Fort Randall, Dakota Territory, during September 18, 1881 to April 28, 1883, when Sitting Bull and his band of Uncapap (Hunkpapa) Sioux Indians were incarcerated there. The series includes portraits of Sitting Bull, One Bull, Eat Dog, and Steps (a Nez Perce Indian who joined the Sioux band), as well as images of the tribe in tipi camps, receiving rations, and being counted by soldiers at morning roll call. One image in the series shows four companies of the U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry in formation on the Fort Randall parade grounds. Each stereograph in the Sitting Bull series is numbered, titled, and has detailed information (i.e. measurements for an individual or ration proportions for each tribal member) printed on the back of the card. The most recent stereographs in ST 005 are from November 1921 when chiefs of the Sioux and Crow Indian tribes (Plenty Coups, Amos Red Owl, Stranger Horse, and Clement Whirlwind Soldier) traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with President Warren G. Harding and Commissioner of Indian Affairs Charles H. Burke and to participate in a ceremony honoring unknown soldiers.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The Montana Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the Photograph Archives collections and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the Photograph Archives before any reproduction use. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in its collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.

Preferred Citation

Plains Indian Tribes stereograph collection, ST 005. [Item number], Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, Helena, Montana.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The collection is arranged alphabetically by the name of the photographer or publisher (i.e. W.R. Cross and Keystone View Company). Within each photographer/publisher series, the stereographs are arranged by the Indian tribe that has been photographed (i.e. Sioux Indians and Crow Indians). If the tribe is not known, the stereographs are arranged in a subseries entitled “Indians, Tribe Unknown”.

Series I. American Views

Subseries 1: Indians, Tribe Unknown

Series II. Bailey, Dix & Mead

Subseries 1: Sitting Bull Series, NO. 1 – NO. 24

Series III. Crahan Manufacturing Company

Subseries 1: Crow Indians

Series IV. W. R. Cross

Subseries 1: Crow Indians

Series V. Griffith & Griffith

Subseries 1: Crow Indians

Series VI: Keystone View Company

Subseries 1: Blackfeet Indians

Subseries 2: Cheyenne Indians

Subseries 3: Sioux Indians

Subseries 4: Snake Indians

Subseries 5: Crow and Sioux Indians

Subseries 6: Indians, Tribe Unknown

Series VII. Martin’s Gallery of Stereoscopic Views

Subseries 1: Sioux Indians

Series VIII. Underwood & Underwood

Subseries 1: Blackfeet Indians

Subseries 2: Crow Indians

Series IX. H. C. White Company

Subseries 1: Crow Indians

Acquisition Information

Acquisition information available upon request.

Processing Note

This collection is composed of stereographs received in several acquisitions dating 1992 to 2015. Included are 53 images from PAc 2007-23; 33 images from the Bud Lake and Randy Brewer Collection (PAc 2015-3); 24 images from the Haynes Foundation Collection; two images from PAc 99-67; and one image each from PAc 92-66, PAc 2010-5, and PAc 93-79.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I: American ViewsReturn to Top

Description	Dates
Subseries 1: Indians, Tribe Unknown
01: [Indians and tipi camp]. [Man holding a child sits by a tipi. A woman and children, one in a cradleboard, sit on the ground under a tarp on a frame. Other tipis are behind them.] (American Views, XLNT S&L Series)	circa 1890

Series II: Bailey, Dix & MeadReturn to Top

Description	Dates
Subseries 1: Sitting Bull Series, NO. 1 – NO. 24 Bailey, Dix & Mead produced a series of twenty-four stereographs of Sitting Bull and his band of Hunkpapa Sioux Indians who were imprisoned at Fort Randall, Dakota Territory, during September 18, 1881 to April 28, 1883.
02: Yaton Kaiyotonka, Sitting Bull and true autograph. [Portrait of Sitting Bull taken as a prisoner at Fort Randall. He is seated and holds a bag and tobacco pipe.](Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	circa 1882
03: Winter quarters. [Three tipis, with hides over the entrances, sit in a grove of trees near Fort Randall. A man wrapped in a blanket or hide sits by one tipi.] (Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	circa 1882
04: Steps. [Portrait of Steps, a Nez Perce Indian man, wearing a coat and kneeling next to a small table. His feet and right hand were lost due to frostbite.] (Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	circa 1882
05: Medicine teepe. [Woman wrapped in a blanket sits by a tipi near a wolf skin that is staked to the ground. In the camp are two other tipis, a woodpile, and a pole with a bundle at the top.] (Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	circa 1882
06: Sitting Bull and favorite wife. [Sitting Bull, holding a pouch and pipe, and "his eighth wife" sit in front of a tipi in a grove of trees at Fort Randall. Two other people stand near the tipi.] (Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	circa 1882
07: Winter quarters. [Group of women wearing blankets sit near a tipi in a grove of trees at Fort Randall.] (Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	circa 1882
08: One Bull. [Portrait of One Bull, a nephew of Sitting Bull. He is seated, wears armbands and a choker necklace, and holds a pipe decorated with hair or fur.] (Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	circa 1882
09: Winter quarters. [Group of women wrapped in blankets sit and stand near a row of tipis in a grove of trees. The camp is at Fort Randall.] (Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	circa 1882
10: Issuing rations. [Man holding a pipe sits on the ground near a tipi camp at Fort Randall. Behind him are a group of Sioux women and children and soldiers and their families.] (Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	1883 April 18
11: Woman's rights. [Two women wrapped in blankets sit near tipis and piles of wood. Another woman stands behind them.] (Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	circa 1882
12: Sitting Bull, squaw and twins. [Sitting Bull, his wife ("Little Bell, No. 9"), and three children sit by a tipi with a non-native woman and child. Behind them is a soldier wearing a cape sitting on a white horse.] (Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	circa 1882
13: True to nature. [Soldier stands near a large circular guard tent with a stovepipe. Behind is a tipi camp at summer quarters at Fort Randall.] (Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	circa 1882
14: Morning visit. [Steps, a Nez Perce Indian man, kneels by a tipi and women and children are nearby. Two soldiers and three non-native women view the camp during morning roll call.] (Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	circa 1882
15: Stealing the trade. [Sitting Bull wrapped in a blanket stands near tipis and a wood pile at Fort Randall. Two other people are walking through the camp.] (Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	circa 1882
16: Battalion drill. [Military band and four companies of 25th Infantry (Afro-American) troops on Fort Randall parade ground. Behind are the post hospital, quarters, magazine, and guard house.] (Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	circa 1882
17: One Bull and Black Prairie Chicken. [One Bull and Black Prairie Chicken (wearing an animal robe) sit by a hide staked to the ground. Behind are tipis, a soldier on horseback, and a non-native woman and child.] (Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	circa 1882
18: Issuing supplies. [Soldiers, post quartermaster, and others stand by a wagon and bundles of annuity goods at Fort Randall. Two Indian women seated on the ground and tipis are nearby.] (Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	1882 April
19: Morning roll call. [Soldier and two non-native women and a child stand near tipis at Fort Randall. Indian women sit in front of each tipi to be counted during morning roll call.] (Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	circa 1882
20: Squaws carrying wood. [Three women walk across a field carrying large bundles of firewood strapped to their backs. Behind them are buildings at Fort Randall.] (Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	circa 1882
21: Sitting Bull, two wives and three pappooses. [Sitting Bull, holding a pouch and pipe on his lap, and two women sit by a tipi. One woman holds a young child on her lap. Two other children (twins) sit next to her.] (Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	circa 1882
22: Winter quarters. [Tipi camp at Fort Randall set among a grove of trees. Hides cover the tipi entrances. Several women and children stand outside the tipis.] (Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	circa 1882
23: Eat Dog and family. [Eat Dog (wearing a jacket and brimmed hat), a woman (wearing a striped blanket), and two young children sit outside a tipi. Other tipis are in the camp.] (Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	circa 1882
24: Summer view. [Tipis, one with a hide across the entrance, and wood piles at a camp at Fort Randall. Two people wearing blankets are in the camp.] (Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	circa 1882
25: Summer view. [Man and woman (brother and wife of Brave Bear) sit by a tipi. Also in the camp are other tipis and a soldier standing with another person.] (Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead)	circa 1882

Series III: Crahan Manufacturing CompanyReturn to Top

Description	Dates
Subseries 1: Crow Indians
26: Crow Chief. [Man wearing a breastplate, feather roach, bells on his legs, and a choker shell necklace stands near horses and wagons. He holds a blanket and a stick.] (Original Stereoscopic Photographs of North Western Subjects)	circa 1890

Series IV: W. R. CrossReturn to Top

Description	Dates
Subseries 1: Crow Indians
27: Crow Indians, Crow Agency, Mont. [Five children sit on the ground at a tipi camp. Behind them are five seated women, three standing men, two men on horseback, and other tipis.] (Black Hills, The Switzerland of America, Hot Springs, S.D.)	circa 1880

Series V: Griffith & GriffithReturn to Top

Description	Dates
Subseries 1: Crow Indians
28: Crow Indians in war dance. [Group of Crow Indian men wearing traditional dance regalia sit near a wind barrier, striped tent, and tipi. Some hold sticks and two hold umbrellas.] (#4525, Geo. W. Griffith, Publisher, Philadelphia, Pa.)	circa 1901
29: Ghost dance of Crow Indians, Montana. [Group of Crow Indian men wearing traditional regalia dance as spectators (some with umbrellas) watch. One dancer carries a U.S. flag. (b&w and tinted)] (#4527, Geo. W. Griffith, Publisher, Philadelphia, Pa.)	circa 1902

Series VI: Keystone View CompanyReturn to Top

The stereographs published by the Keystone View Company are numbered: if the number on the Keystone stereograph begins with the letter V, an Underwood & Underwood negative was used and the companies held dual copyright; if the number begins with the letter W, an H. C. White negative was used; if it has the letter T, it may mean that the stereograph is part of a Keystone “Tour of the World” set. On some Keystone views a “set” number will appear in the upper center of the stereograph indicating the position of that view in its specific boxed set.

Description	Dates
Subseries 1: Blackfeet Indians
30: An Indian artist's robe, Blackfeet Indians, Glacier National Park, Montana. [Non-native man wears a painted blanket. Two Indian men, one with a feather headdress and one holding a lance and shield, stand next to him. A tipi is behind the men.] (#25, #23004)	circa 1910
31: Powwow in the Medicine Lodge, Blackfeet Indians of Glacier National Park, Mont. [Seven Blackfeet Indian men ("Ikunutsomitaks, Brave Dogs") wearing traditional regalia are seated on a blanket under a shade arbor near the Cutbank River.] (#23, #147, #23003)	circa 1910
32: Chief Two-Guns-White-Calf and companions in Medicine Lodge ceremony, Glacier Nat. Park. [Blackfeet men and young boy in traditional native regalia dance and drum during a Medicine Lodge ceremony at Glacier National Park. Behind the men are two tipis.] (#12, #14, #T164, #V32589)	circa 1910
33: In the village of Blackfeet Indians near St. Mary's Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana. [Blackfeet woman and child stand at the entrance to a tipi. Another woman stands near bundles on the ground. Other tipis are in the camp and mountains are behind it.] (#5, #11, #1101, #T163, #T342, #P252, #V23181)	circa 1910
Subseries 2: Cheyenne Indians
34: Cheyenne Indians at the grave of General Custer. [Group of Cheyenne Indian men, wearing jackets and brimmed hats, sit on the ground outside the fence surrounding the Custer Monument at the Little Bighorn Battlefield.] (#H155, #W26347)	circa 1910
Subseries 3: Sioux Indians
35: Sioux Indian riders before horse race. [Two Sioux Indian men wearing breechcloths stand (backs to camera) near a horse and a group of non-native men.] (#36, #19, #137, #23317	circa 1910
36: Group of Sioux Indians watching a horse race. [Sioux Indian men, women, and children sit on the top row of a wooden grandstand. Several dogs are with the group. Behind them are a domed building and other facilities.] (#37, #138, #23321)	circa 1910
Subseries 4: Snake Indians
37: Snake Indian children. [Snake Indian man, two women, and seven children (one in a cradleboard) are gathered in front of a tipi. A small dog is also in the camp.] (#9, #21036)	circa 1910
38: Snake River Indians' scalp dance. [Group of Snake River Indian men wearing traditional native regalia dance in lines. Spectators and tipis are behind the dancers.] (#22, #11, #21037)	circa 1910
Subseries 5: Crow and Sioux Indians
39: Sioux and Crow Indian Chiefs, Indian Commissioner Burke and Pres. Harding at the White House. [Indian chiefs Frost, Plenty Coos, Owl and Red Horse, wearing native regalia, stand near the White House with Commissioner Burke and President Harding.] (#100, #1100, #23309)	1921 November
40: Sioux and Crow Indian Chiefs, Indian Commissioner Burke and Pres. Harding at the White House. [Indian chiefs Frost, Plenty Coos, Owl and Red Horse, wearing native regalia, stand near the White House with Commissioner Burke and President Harding.] (#23309)	1921 November
41: White Face Bear, Chief Plenty Coos & Frost, Sioux & Crow Indian chiefs arriving at White House to visit Pres. Harding. [Three Indian men, two wearing native regalia and one wearing a suit and brimmed hat (and carrying a suitcase and feather headdress), stand outside near a building.] (#23310)	1921 November
Subseries 6: Indians, Tribe Unknown
42: Indians of several tribes. [Five Indian men (wearing feather headdresses), a woman, and three children are posed in front of four tipis (one painted). Behind the tipis are a wooden building and fence.] (#23341)	circa 1910
43: An old Indian chief. [Portrait (bust) of an unidentified elderly Indian man. He wears a blanket around his shoulders.] (#2, #23327)	circa 1910
44: An Indian chief and his wife. [Indian man and woman wearing native regalia sit on horseback near a row of tipis. Above the camp flies a U.S. flag attached to a tall stick.] (#24, #34368)	circa 1910
45: An Indian holding a tomahawk. [Elderly Indian man, wearing native regalia including a feather headdress, stands outdoors. He holds a decorated tomahawk in one hand.] (#13, #34366)	circa 1910
46: Indian warriors in council. [Four men sit near a tipi. They wear native regalia and have shields decorated with birds and feathers. One man holds a fur-wrapped lance and another holds a pipe.] (#17, #P254, #23347)	circa 1910
47>: An Indian village. [Group of men seated, reclining, and standing near a row of tipis. The men hold rifles, bows, arrows, and lances. One man is smoking a pipe.] (#4, #V23180)	circa 1910
48: Feathered and painted braves. [Man holding a rope stands near a group of men on horseback. Some men wear feather headdresses and some hold lances decorated with feathers.] (#3, #V23176)	circa 1910
49>: An Indian squaw dance. [Six Indian women, some holding sticks, move in a line near a row of tipis. Also in the camp are a few people watching the dance and a dog.] (#21, #23001)	circa 1910
50: Indians preparing for a ceremony. [Group of Indian men wearing traditional native regalia stand together outdoors. A tipi and mountains are behind the men.] (#19, #23000)	circa 1910
51: Indians ready for the ceremony. [Group of Indian men wearing traditional native regalia stand in a line near a tipi and shade arbor. A few women stand behind them. A mountain is in the background.] (#20, #23002)	circa 1910
52: Primitive homes, Indian tepees. [Indian man wearing a jacket and brimmed hat stands with a horse and foal. Behind him are tipis and a tripod holding a rack made of branches.] (#V33831)	circa 1910
53: An Indian family. [Man, woman and two children sit in front of a tipi set up on the bank of a lake. Two other children are near the water. A mountain is across the lake.] (#6, #34465)	circa 1910
54: Vehicles, Indian travois. [Indian woman and a dog stand next to a small saddled horse attached to a travois. A wooden building, fence, and dirt road are behind the woman. Snow is on the ground.] (#17, #23343)	circa 1910
55: An Indian travois. [Man holding a tomahawk sits on a horse that is pulling two children seated on a travois. Behind them are tipis and wagons.] (#16, #33746)	circa 1910
56: An Indian skinning a buffalo. [Man skins a buffalo (with arrows in the carcass) as a group of Indians wearing feather headdresses watch. One man stands by a horse and holds a feathered lance.] (#11, #V23174)	circa 1910
57: Indians talking in sign language. [Two Indian men (one with a feather headdress) stand by a non-native man (in chaps, gun belt, and cowboy hat) on horseback. The Indians hold three fingers of one hand up.] (#9, #V233247)	circa 1910
58: Making an Indian bow, Indian camp, World's Fair, 1904, St. Louis, Mo. [Indian man whittling a stick sits on a blanket in front of a tipi. Two bows are on his lap. A woman holding an arrow stands next to him. A hat hangs above the tipi entrance.] (#12, #22, #23339)	1904
59: A school for Indians, Haskell Institute. [Large group of men wearing suits and brimmed hats stand in front of a four-story stone building at the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas.] (#25, #23333)	circa 1900

Series VII: Martin’s Gallery of Stereoscopic ViewsReturn to Top

Description	Dates
Subseries 1: Sioux Indians
60: Wa-Kan-o-zhan-zahn (Medicine Bottle), Sioux Indian engaged in the massacre of 1862. [Portrait of Medicine Bottle, a Sioux Indian man. He is seated by a stone building and wears a shirt and striped blanket. His hands are folded under his chin.]	circa 1885

Series VIII: Underwood & UnderwoodReturn to Top

Description	Dates
Subseries 1: Blackfeet Indians
61: Gala dance of Blackfeet Indians, St. Mary's chalet encampment, Glacier Nat'l. Park. [Group of Blackfeet Indian men dressed in traditional dance regalia stand together near a tipi. One man holds a drum and stands by a bucket. Spectators watch the event.] (#29, #13415, #U-210004)	circa 1890
62: Weird campfire dance at night in wigwam of Blackfeet Indians, Glacier Nat'. Park. [Three Blackfeet Indian men dressed in traditional regalia dance around a smoky campfire as others (seated and standing) watch.] (#30, #13416, #U-209946)	circa 1900
Subseries 2: Crow Indians
63: Scene at a Feast Dance on the Crow Reservation, near Billings, Montana, watching the dance. [Crow Indian women (one with a child on her back and some with umbrellas) and children are gathered together outdoors. Behind them are tipis and men on horseback.]	circa 1901

Series IX: H. C. White CompanyReturn to Top

Description	Dates
Subseries 1: Crow Indians
64: Crow scout Bull Snake, who fought with Gen. Crook against Crow Indians. Hip shattered in fight. Wyoming. [Bull Snake, an elderly Crow Indian man, sits on horseback near a tipi. He wears a breechcloth, gun belt, and bandolier, and holds a rifle in one arm.] (#917.8, # 6305, The Perfec-Stereograph)	circa 1909

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Cheyenne Indians
Crow Indians
Dakota Indians
Indian children
Indian dance
Indian prisoners
Indians – Rites and ceremonies
Indians – Social life and customs
Nez Perce Indians
Shoshoni Indians
Siksika Indians
Tipis
United States Army. Infantry Division, 25th

Personal Names

Black Prairie Chicken (Sioux Indian)
Bull Snake (Crow Indian)
Eat Dog (Sioux Indian)
One Bull, 1853-1947 (Sitting Bull’s adopted son)
Sitting Bull, 1831-1890
Steps (Nez Perce Indian)
Two Guns White Calf (Siksika Indian)
Wa-Kan'-O-Zan-Zan, -1865 (aka Medicine Bottle, Santee Indian)

Geographical Names

Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana
Crow Indian Reservation (Mont.)
Fort Randall (S.D.)
Glacier National Park (Mont.)

Form or Genre Terms

Photographs

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