Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Date:
1915
Biographical / Historical:
The horse trappings are Blackfoot, but cradleboard is Dakota (J.C. Ewers, April, 1966). Subject identified 5/66 by Nora Spanish and Mae Williamson, South Piegans of Browning, Montana and transmitted by Claude Schaeffer, Museum of the Plains Indian.
Another view reproduced in James W. Schultz, Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park, Boston, 1916, opposite page 42with the caption "Moving Camp from Two Medicine, The end of the procession." Schultz did the field workfor the text in July-September 1915. Thus pictures in this series (negatives 4700-4712) have all been dated as 1915. The photographer is stated as being R.W. Reed (p. X of Illustrations). See also remarks on catalog card 4700.
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.4709
Local Note:
Black and white copy negative
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
