Morrow photo of Berthold Treaty

[grahamew]

Photo by Morrow; text at Cowan's Auctions:



A fine view from S.J. Morrow's series The Great North-West, on regular-sized mount featuring his Yankton, Dakota imprint, with penciled title below image. The stereoview captures the Sisseton (Sioux), Arikarees, Gros Ventres, and Mandans signing a peace treaty. Morrow arrived in Yankton, the new capitol of Dakota Territory, in 1869. His first trip up the Missouri occurred the same year and little is definitely known about his itinerary or how far upriver he progressed. In 1870, he again traveled up the Missouri, and this image documents that he was at Fort Berthold in July, which is when most of his early portraits appear to have been made there. The building in the background is one of the trader's stores with a fortified gate, not Fort Berthold itself.

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If you go the site, you can blow up the photo with a decent resolution. I don't have the skill to do this and save the image to post it, so I'm asking, if anyone can , please post a larger version of this. I think the man at the right is the Sisseton leader Good Inside His Lodge or Little Fish, seen bottom left in this photo of Sisseton leaders taken in 1876.



I also wonder if this, labelled only as Santee chief, is the same man:

[Dietmar]

Grahame,

I thought exactly the same when I saw the image the first time.



I can´t present the full picture (only naiches2 can do it ;-) ), but I believe it is possibly Little Fish aka Goodhouse.

[grahamew]

Thanks for that. Isn't there another photo from this treaty?

[grahamew]

If anyone has any other photos of this meeting, please could you post them?

Thanks

[Dietmar]

Unfortunately I haven´t seen any other photo of this peace council in 1870.

I looked through the Hurt/Lass book on Morrow and found on page 25 a comment regarding the said photo:

Morrow obtained a photograph of the signers of the treaty between the Sioux under Two Bear, and the Arikara, Hidatsa, and Mandans of Fort Berthold. An error apparently crept into the title, which identifies the Sioux as Sisseton, yet Morrow´s newspaper article refers to the Sioux as the Yanktonais band under Two Bear.
Wesley Hurt/William Lass: Frontier Photographer, University of Nebraska Press 1956

Which means, either the authors are wrong, or we have seen only a man that resembles Little Fish, but is rather a Yanktonai.

[Dietmar]

Just found an article that says that the scene was photographed in front of trader and scout Frederic Gerard´s post at Fort Berthold.

[grahamew]

I have another copy of this and the men are identified as Sisseton, Arikaree, Gros Ventre and Mandan are written on the mount.

There is a photo of Medicine Bear with some Arikara, Mandan and Gros Ventre leaders taken at Berthold.

[lgarcia]

Can someone tell me where the original thread is?
It moved from the 50 most recent posts to be filed somewhere.
I have looked under Morrow, Sisseton, Photographers, etc.
Can't seem to find it.
I helped Mark Diedrich write the biography of Little Fish.
Later,
LouieG
Ft. Totten, ND

[grahamew]

This one, Louie?

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