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Contains 6 Results:

Crow delegation to Washington, 1880

 Item — Box: + Oversize, item: 1
Identifier: 1931-004-2-S1
Scope and Contents

Group photograph taken of the Crow delegation to Washington in April or May of 1880. Note on back details the photographer, Plenty Coups and Two Belly, and gives an erroneous date of “about 1890”.

Dates: 1880

Rain in the Face, Undated

 Item — Box: + Oversize, item: 2
Identifier: 1931-004-2-S2
Scope and Contents

Probably a charcoal drawing of Iromagaju (aka Rain in the Face), the man purported to have killed Gen. Geoge A. Custer. May be based on the George W. Scott image. Digital image has been modified from the original for clarity. Title supplied.

Dates: Undated

Appeal to the Great Father, Undated

 Item — Box: + Oversize, item: 3
Identifier: 1931-004-2-S3
Scope and Contents

Photograph of man identified as "Chief Three Bears" (Mato Yamni). Digital image has been modified from the original for clarity.


Written in pencil on versoo of photograph top center: "Appeal to the Great Father." Written in pencil on verso of photograph bottom center: "Indians." Written in ink on versoo of photograph top center: "Chief Three Bears. Chief of Black Feet Indians. Picture made by Dr. A H Cordier. 415 Benton. Kansas City, Mo. This chief died in 1919."

Dates: Undated

Buffalo Bill's Wild West, approximately 1895, 1911

 Item — Box: + Oversize, item: 4
Identifier: 1931.004.3.S4
Scope and Contents

Group of Indians with "Buffalo Bill." Photograph on cardboard. Digital image has been modified from the original for clarity.


Printed on recto of photograph center: "Buffalo Bill's Wild West.:" Printed on rectoo of photograph bottom right: "Copyright by Stacy, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1911." Written in pencil on versoo of card center: "Soper photo-4."

Dates: approximately 1895; Issued: 1911

Man Being Scalped, Undated

 Item — Box: + Oversize, item: 5
Identifier: 1931.004.3.S5
Scope and Contents

Title supplied. Lithogaph of man being scalped in shape of palette. Digital image has been modified from the original for clarity. Photographer: Unknown.


Written in ink on verso of photo top center: illegible.

Dates: Undated

American Horse, 1878-07-26

 Item — Box: + Oversize, item: 6
Identifier: 1931.004.3.S7a
Scope and Contents

Title supplied. Picture of man identified as "Chief American Horse of the Ogallalla Band of the Souix Indians" on right and treaty with the United States of America's Department of the Interior's Office of Indian Affairs recognizes "American Horse" as chief on left. Both picture and treaty mounted on larger board. Digital image has been modified from the original for clarity.


"American Horse" is the English translation of his name Wasechun Tashunka.

Dates: 1878-07-26