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Physical description:
Gelatin silver prints; 10 x 8;
Type:
Black-and-white photographs
Date:
1920
Circa 1920s
Notes:
USNM No. 30314
The figure incorporates the painted life mask of Kicking Bear, made by the Bureau of American Ethnology during his visit to Washington D.C. in 1896.
Summary:
United States National Museum ethnology exhibit case in the Natural History Building, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, featuring figure of Kicking Bear, a chief of the Lakota, also known as Teton Sioux, tribe.
Cite as:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44, Folder 01, Image No. SIA_000095_B44_F01_017
Repository Loc.:
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
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