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
Portraits of Ree and Sioux Indians, including Yellow Badger, Red Blanket, Crow King, Big Hand, Strikes Enemy (with his son, Bear's Entrails), Standing Holy as a young girl, Running Antelope, Gaul, Grey Bear (alone and with his wife and child), John Grass, Pau-Li-Na, Big John, Sitting Bull and Spread Face. Group portraits of Yellow Badger with The Youngest and High Cheek Bone, and of No Heart's three children (as adults). and There are two partially identified images, one of a teepee and the other of an unidentified Ree Indian
Description:
Letterpress captions on most mounts. and Accompanied by a box list.
Publisher:
Z. Gilbert
Subject (Geographic):
South Dakota.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Arikara Indians, and Dakota Indians
Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)
Published / Created:
1876.
Call Number:
WA Photos Folio 54
Image Count:
112
Abstract:
Album of photographs of Indians of North America assembled in 1876 from images in the collection of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. The images in the photographs were originally created ca. 1868-1876, and consist primarily of portraiture of male delegates to the United States with occasional images of women and children. The images were created for ethnographic portfolios of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England. A few images show individuals with mixed descent and interpreters, The broad geographical regions represented by individuals in the album include Eastern States, Great Lakes Region, Great Plains, Middle Atlantic States, Middle West, New England, New Southwest, Pacific Northwest, and Southern States, Portraits represent various tribal groups, including Apache Indians, Arapaho Indians, Arikara Indians, Bannock Indians, Brotherton Indians, Brulé Indians, Caddo Indians, Cherokee Indians, Cheyenne Indians, Chickasaw Indians, Choctaw Indians, Comanche Indians, Creek Indians, Crow Indians, Dakota Indians, Delaware Indians, Fox Indians, Iowa Indians, Isleta Indians, Jicarilla Indians, Kansa Indians, Keeche Indians, Kiowa Apache Indians, Kiowa Indians, Mandan Indians, Mdewakanton Indians , Miami Indians, Modoc Indians, Navajo Indians, Nez Percé Indians, Northern Arapaho Tribe, Oglala Indians, Ojibwa Indians, Omaha Indians, Oohenonpa Indians, Osage Indians, Oto Indians, Ottawa Indians, Pawnee Indians, Pima Indians, Ponca Indians, Potawatomi Indians, Santee Indians , Sauk Indians, Seminole Indians, Seneca Indians, Shahaptian Indians, Shawnee Indians, Shoshoni Indians, Sihasapa Indians, Sisseton Indians , Stockbridge Indians, Tawakoni Indians, Tohono O'odham Indians, Ute Indians, Waco Indians, Western Apache Indians, Wichita Indians, Winnebago Indians, Yankton Indians, Yanktonai Indians, and Yuma Indians, Exterior images consist primarily of informal portraiture, as well as depicting residences and settlements, including the Crow Indian Agency in Montana, 1871; the Pawnee Indian School and buildings at the Pawnee Reserve, Loup Fork, Nebraska, 1871; and a Bannock Indian camp near Fort Hall, Idaho, 1872, An image of two men depicts a seated Dakota Indian, Red Cloud (Ma-Kpe-Ah-Lou-Tah), shaking hands with William Blackmore, May 1872, and Individual photographers with images represented in the album include Charles Milton Bell, Thomas Martin Easterly, Alexander Gardner, Benjamin Gurney, Jeremiah Gurney, William Henry Jackson, James Earle McClees, Antonio Zeno Shindler, Henry Ulke, Julius Ulke, Lee Ulke, Julian Vannerson, and Orloff R. Westmann
Description:
Additional identification information for the majority of images in the album is available through the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland. and Manuscript captions on mounts.
Subject (Geographic):
East (U.S.), Great Lakes Region (North America), Great Plains, Middle Atlantic States, Middle West, New England, Northwest, Pacific, Southern States, Southwest, New, and Fort Hall (Idaho : Fort)
Subject (Name):
Bell, C. M. ca. 1849-1893. (Charles Milton),, Blackmore, William, 1827-1878, Easterly, Thomas M. 1809-1882. (Thomas Martin),, Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882., Gurney, Benjamin., Gurney, Jeremiah, 1812-1895., Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942., McClees, James Earle, 1821-1887., Red Cloud, 1822-1909, Shindler, A. Zeno 1823-1899. (Antonio Zeno),, Ulke, Henry, 1821-1910., Ulke, Julius., Ulke, Lee., Vannerson, Julian, b. 1827., Westmann, Orloff R., Blackmore Museum (Salisbury, England), Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), Northern Arapaho Tribe, and United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Crow Indian Agency
