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Post by Californian on Jul 15, 2022 21:41:15 GMT -5
Native American chiefs & warriors who participated in the Cummins Indian Congress Wild West Show in 1903. The show originated in Illinois and travelled through out the country - by Brown Brothers of New York, for sale on eBay July 2022 click onto images to enlarge
Eagle Head Good Plumes Last Horse (Oglala) Long Shot Philip Standing Soldier Plucks Porcupine (Oglala) Red Panther (Seminole) - wrong attribution, actually it is Ghost Dog, an OglalaShot Man (Blackfoot) - wrong attribution, believed to actually be Ring Hawk, also known as Ghost FaceWhite Rabbit Willie Arafalive
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Post by Dietmar on Jul 16, 2022 5:56:31 GMT -5
Thank you Californian for starting this thread. Like I said before, the portraits of this tour are often mis-identified.
The names of Last Horse and Philip Standing Soldier are definitely correct. The rest is unclear.
The first photo (allegedly Eagle Head) has been identified elsewhere as Plucks Porcupine and shows the same man identified in other photos as Iron Elk.
Red Panther (not a Seminole of course) is definitely the Buffalo Bill veteran Ghost Dog.
Shot Man is rather the man called Ring Hawk, who also is known as Ghost Face (sometimes translated as Goose Face).
I‘ m not at home this week, so I can’t post more photos of this series.
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Post by Californian on Jul 16, 2022 12:31:01 GMT -5
You are absolutely right Dietmar as far as the naming and attributions go - Brown Brothers in the early 1900's were the purveyors of image material for the national press and also book publishers. They had an army of photographers that contributed photographs to the ever growing collection, compare them perhaps to Keystone. The series of portraits of the Indian participants at Colonel Cummins Circus likely was done in one session - probably 30 or more and I can see that the potential is there for making errors, also later careless archiving - these glass plate negatives had been stored in manila paper sleeves with names written in pencil thereon. Any glass negative could have easily been stored in the the wrong sleeve. You can check it out for yourself at www.ebay.com/str/evansarchive (mind you that it is temporary, sale ends on July 24th 2022) example of a storage sleeve
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Post by gregor on Jul 18, 2022 6:17:39 GMT -5
Ghost Dog / Red Panther looks like a younger version of John Grass. Related?
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Post by Californian on Jul 18, 2022 10:32:27 GMT -5
thanks Gregor, there is indeed an uncanny resemblance - the receding forehead/hairline. Do we know if John Grass ever participated in these shows ? However John Grass would have been at the age of late sixties by 1903 and looked more like the below photographs
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Post by Dietmar on Jul 18, 2022 11:32:11 GMT -5
Hi guys, I can see the resemblance in that particular photo, but Ghost Dog was definitely another person. If he is related to John Grass I can‘t say.
John Grass himself, as far as I know, never was a Wild West show performer.
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Post by grahamew on Jul 18, 2022 12:47:23 GMT -5
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Post by gregor on Jul 18, 2022 17:39:48 GMT -5
Of course it couldn't be John Grass. As Californian writes, he was already more than 60 years old around 1900. But didn't he have at least one son? The resemblance is amazing - and so is the thinning hair. And yes, John Grass was Sihasapa/Blackfeet and Ghost Dog is said to be Oglala (but wouldn't be the first time, that a tribal affiliation has been misreported). And Grahame, thanks for the Col. Cummins booklet.
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Post by Californian on Jul 22, 2022 19:43:38 GMT -5
new installment on EBAY - Brown Brothers Archives - all dated 1903 click onto image to enlarge Philip Standing Bear [name mislabeled on the negative sleeve, this is actually Philip Standing Soldier]Brave White Face [Oglala] Flat Horse - misnamed on the archival sleeve, actually it is Flat Iron [Oglala]Red Ox Painted Horse [Oglala] Long Bear - wrong attribution, this is actually White FaceRed Shirt Short Man [Blackfoot]
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Post by Californian on Jul 22, 2022 23:06:09 GMT -5
these are, by the way, the very same portraits that can be found at the Center of the West, Buffalo Bill Collection, University of Wyoming, except this time the actual, original glass negatives are being offered for sale on ebay here is the link to the Center of the West, Buffalo Bill Collection: digitalcollections.uwyo.edu/luna/servlet/uwydbuwy~60~60
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Post by Dietmar on Jul 24, 2022 11:19:29 GMT -5
Hi Californian,
I would think that most names of your last eight pictures are correct. Please change the name Flat Horse to Flat Iron.
Philip Standing Soldier, White Face, Flat Iron, Painted Horse, Red Shirt and Short Man can be compared to other portraits.
But the photo of Long Bear shows the same man identified as White Face.
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Post by Californian on Jul 24, 2022 14:12:17 GMT -5
thank you Dietmar, I made the changes as per your suggestions. I anticipate that more of these portraits will be offered by Evans Archives for sale on eBay in the coming weeks
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Post by Dietmar on Jul 26, 2022 8:24:53 GMT -5
Thanks to our member Wolfgang, we got proof that the man identified at the Carter Museum site as Charging Thunder is rather Strikes Plenty: Strikes Plenty comparison Strikes Plenty/Charging Thunder comparison Strikes Plenty, 1903 Strikes Plenty 1903
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Post by wolfgang on Jul 26, 2022 9:49:30 GMT -5
Thank You Dietmar, more Cummins Wild West Fotos: nebraska.access.preservica.com/?s=RG3609
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Post by Dietmar on Jul 27, 2022 6:20:56 GMT -5
These portraits also have been misidentified by auction sites. They show Eagle Head, a Lakota who served in the Oglala Infantry Company at Fort Omaha in the 1890s: Eagle Head Eagle Head
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