Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Oglala Lakota (?) Search this
Object Type:
Bracelet
Place:
Upper Missouri River, Montana (not certain) / Wyoming (not certain), United States, North America
Accession Date:
1880
Collection Date:
Mar 1876
Notes:
FROM CARD: "CAPTURED FROM CRAZY HORSE'S BAND OF SIOUX MCH. 1876. EXTERIORS ENGRAVED IN DOTTED LINES. INVENTORIED 1978."
This was presumably acquired during the U.S. Army's Big Horn Expedition of March 1876 against the Northern Cheyenne and Lakota Sioux in Montana Territory and Wyoming Territory. Alexander Albrecht was a Sergeant in the 4th Battalion, Company "A", 2nd Cavalry. The major fight of that campaign was the Battle on Powder River, March 17, 1876.
