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Post by jinlian on Jan 11, 2010 10:52:12 GMT -5
From the Denver Public Library: A portrait of "Wagon", Crow Indian by D. Barry. There's in fact no Wagon in the 1885 Crow Census and the names of many Barry subjects sometimes are all but reliable. "Wagon" in fact looks very like Bell Rock (below, in a 1900 Rinehart photo)...other opinions?
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Post by Dietmar on Jan 11, 2010 12:38:18 GMT -5
Hi jinlian, I have seen at least one other photograph by Barry with the name Wagon applied to it. It can be found at DPL and SIRIS: I agree your first photo looks like Bell Rock.
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Post by grahamew on Jan 11, 2010 15:22:50 GMT -5
Here's another I've seen identified as Crow. Note that his shirt and necklaces seem awfully similar to those worn by the man in the photo Jinlian posted - though the blanket's clearly different - yet he looks like the man in Dietmar's photo with hair styled differently. I'm not too sure all three (two?) of them aren't Hidatsa or Arikara. The one Dietmar posted I've got filed as Crow or Arikara.
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Post by jinlian on Jan 11, 2010 16:51:56 GMT -5
Thanks for your answers, Dietmar and Grahame. The second photograph of the other "Wagon" (I'm of the opinion that the individual in the SIRIS is the same person) is in the archive of the Denver Public Library, where he's identified as a Crow - I'seem to remember having seen him elsewhere (and identified as Hidatsa), but have nothing to back it. Barry photographed a great number of Crow and Hidatsa and mis-identifications of these subjects are quite common. About the first one - I'm pretty sure he's in fact Bell-rock, even if I wouldn't bet a four figures sum on it...
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