Wife of Bird Rattler. Her full name was Going after Water Bird Rattler. Before her marriage to Bird Rattler her name was Short Robe. She was a skilled crafts worker (beadwork, rawhide painting). She died in the summer of 1943 or 1944. She was the mother of Cecile Black Boy, an able interpreter. According to the Reservation Census of Dec. 31, 1939, she was a full blood, then 70 years of age. (J.C. Ewers, Jan. 1949). Born 1868. Home: Blackfoot Agency, Montana
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BAE GN 413 A, Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives