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ST 005
Plains Indian Tribes stereographs
1882-1921
115 stereographs (includes 51 dups)
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.
No textual or other language
materials are included in the collection.
Biographical Note
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".
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.
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
Collection is open for research.
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.
Plains Indian Tribes stereograph collection, ST 005. [Item number], Montana
Historical Society Photograph Archives, Helena, Montana.
Acquisition information available upon request.
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.
Sitting Bull,
1831-1890
Steps (Nez Perce
Indian)
One Bull, 1853-1947
(Sitting Bull’s adopted son)
Black Prairie Chicken
(Sioux Indian)
Eat Dog (Sioux
Indian)
Two Guns White Calf
(Siksika Indian)
Bull Snake (Crow
Indian)
Wa-Kan'-O-Zan-Zan, -1865
(aka Medicine Bottle, Santee Indian)
United States Army.
Infantry Division, 25th
Cheyenne Indians
Crow Indians
Dakota Indians
Nez Perce
Indians
Siksika Indians
Shoshoni Indians
Indian children
Indian dance
Indian prisoners
Indians – Rites and
ceremonies
Indians – Social life and
customs
Tipis
Fort Randall
(S.D.)
Glacier National Park
(Mont.)
Blackfeet Tribe of the
Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana
Crow Indian Reservation
(Mont.)
Photographs
Native
Americans
Montana
Photographs
Detailed Description of the Collection
Series I
American Views
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 & Mead
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 Company
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. Cross
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 & Griffith
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 Company
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.
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
Views
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 & Underwood
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 Company
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