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
Studio portrait photograph from a mammoth plate negative identified as Susan Te-u-pun McKay, an Umatilla Indian and wife of Donald McKay, a government scout involved in the Modoc Indian War, created by the studio of Thomas Houseworth & Co., ca. 1874. The image depicts McKay posed sitting wearing beaded moccasins, bead necklaces, and a striped blanket
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Printed caption on the verso of the sheet describes "The Nevada Fall, 700 feet high, Yo-Semite Valley, Mariposa County, Cal., No. 20" and "No. 9 Montgomery St., San Francisco".
Subject (Name):
Houseworth, Thomas, 1829-1915., McKay, Susan Te-u-pun., and Thomas Houseworth & Co.
