Photographs of Indian dwellings and studio portraits of Arikara, Gros Ventres (Hidatsa) and Mandan Indians apparently taken at Fort Berthold Indian agency in North Dakota. The portraits are identified as Crow Bear, Lean Wolf, Energy Searcher, Lean Man, He That Stinks, Bobtail Bull, Yellow Wolf, Sitting Bear, Son of Crows Breast, Sioux Dog, Cherry Mouth, Porcupine, Antelope, Son of Red Cow, Little Bull, Red Cow, Chief Bad Gun, Crazy Bull, and Prairie Chicken, all of the Gros Ventres (Hidatsa) tribe and There are also several views of landscapes and cactus, and one view of an annuities issue at Fort Berthold
Description:
Unmounted half stereographs, with manuscript captions on verso. and Date supplied from Paula Fleming et. al., North American Indians in Early Photographs (N.Y.: 1986).
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (N.D.) and North Dakota
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Arikara Indians, Mandan Indians, Hidatsa Indians, and Indian reservations
Photographs of the Fifth Cavalry resting in the Black Hills, including views of soldiers in camp, their supply trains, captured Sioux Indians, wounded soldiers, the butchering of horses for meat, and General Crook ordaining Spotted Tail chief of the Sioux at Red Cloud Agency
Description:
Printed captions pasted on mounts., 27 photographs from a series of 31 that Morrow originally photographed, lacking: #6 Bear Rock, from S., near Custer City; #7 Fifth Cavalry leaving Custer City; #23 Soldiers cutting up abandoned horse; #26 Soldiers fighting over horse meat., Stanley J. Morrow photographed General Crook's column shortly after the battle of Slim Buttes in the Sioux War of 1876., and Copy prints stored with collection.
Subject (Geographic):
Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.)
Subject (Name):
Crook, George, 1828-1890., United States. Cavalry. 5th Regiment, United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Red Cloud Agency, and Spotted Tail, 1823-1881
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Wars, and Dakota Indians
