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Collection Photographer:
Kauffmann, John M.  Search this
Extent:
13 Photographs
Container:
Box 433 (film negatives)
Photo-folder 1
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Photographs
Date:
June 18, 1955
Scope and Contents:
N53820-N53831, P33919 This series contains 12 negatives and 1 print that depict the interview with Dewey Beard [Minneconjou Lakota (Minniconjou Sioux)] that was conducted by Leland Case on June 18, 1955 at the Alex Johnson Hotel, Rapid City, South Dakota. At the time of the interview, Dewey Beard (also known as Iron Hail and Wasu Maza) was the last Sioux survivor of the Battle of Big Horn. The photographs depict Dewey Beard in a war bonnet and beaded hide shirt being interviewed by journalist Leland Case. Dewey Beard died later that year in November. The photographs were shot by amateur photographer John M. Kauffmann.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archives Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); John M. Kauffmann photographs of Dewey Beard, image #, NMAI.AC.225; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
NMAI.AC.225, Series 1
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John M. Kauffmann photographs of Dewey Beard
Archival Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian
GUID:
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EDAN-URL:
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