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Post by jinlian on Aug 26, 2009 7:29:45 GMT -5
In Two Leggings: the making of a Crow warrior , Two Leggings mentions a River Crow chief called Shell on The Neck, whose daughter Two Leggings married in his younger years. In the Mansfield Archives of the University of Montana, Missoula, there are two photographs labeled "Crow Chief, Shell on The Neck", but to me they show two different men. Shell on The Neck 1 Shell on The Neck 2 I'd say that "our" Shell on The Neck is the older man in the second photograph, considering that he was born in 1853 (the image is credited to Dr. Harrison and was taken in 1910). Unfortunately, I don't know of other portraits of Shell on The Neck The other image is uncredited. In other Crow census (1900 and 1910) Shell on The Neck's year of birth is said to be 1860 and 1863, but that wouldn't say much (such mistakes were quite common) and it would be impossible for a man born in the 1860s to be a chief by the early 1870s. In Bourke's On the Border with Crook there's a list of Indian scout in which we have an Arapaho also called Shell on The Neck. Is it possible that the man in the second photo is in fact Shell on The Neck the Arapaho? I don't know of any photograph of him, if someone has any image of him, it would be great to compare it with the above images.
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