On the reverse...
"This is an original silver gelatin photograph of a group of Brule Sicangu Lakota Oyate Sioux Warriors taken June 30th, 1903 in Pittston, Pennsylvania. The image includes the following members, back row left to right includes Joseph Hollow Horn Bear (Sicangu - Mato Herlogeca), Whirlwind (Sicangu - Akn a iyake), Arnold Iron Shell (Sicangu ? Muza pa ke eca), Eagle Bird (Sicangu - Zitka la Wambli) and front row left to right includes non-native and Eagle Feather (Sicangu - Wicarpi Wambli). The image was confirmed in a few locations to have the same Sicangu Brave?s names including whats written on the back of this photo. The Sicangu also referred to as the Rosebud Sioux Tribe or properly as Sicangu Lakota Oyate, or Burnt Thigh People, are descendants of the Sicangu Oyate of the Tetonwan Division of the Oceti Sakowin or Seven Council Fires. The Sicangu or what the French trappers translated to the Brule Sioux. The image shows all five Sicangu Brule Sioux men in full warrior dress with one in cowboy gear. You?ll see several hair pipe bone breast plates, beaded moccasins, feathers in the hair, beadwork, beaded leggings as well as a U.S. Peace Medal around the center man?s neck amongst other things. This is likely a treaty or Washington D.C. visit and the photograph is dated to June 30th, 1903 in Pittston, PA. The silver gelatin photograph has a feat folds on the bottom corners but has a clear rare image. Provenance: From the Jim Aplan Piedmont, South Dakota collection.
Apologies for the English, but this was how the original was written...
"... a Southern Plains Native American Indian family from the 19th Century large format photograph boudoir card. The image shows a Southern Plains man with cowboy hat and overcoat standing next to an older woman with wearing blanket and child on her back as well as a beaded necklace strand. Next to the woman is a small child with wearing blanket, another woman holding a child with wearing blanket and lastly a woman holding a fully beaded craddle board pappose, presumably with a baby in it, also with wearing blanket..."
I think, however, that I've seen this elsewhere labelled as a Lakota group, around the time of Wounded Knee...
"This is an original late 19th Century photograph cabinet card of two Cheyenne Indian Police members in cowboy hats from Oklahoma. The original photograph shows two Cheyenne men in cowboy hats and one having an Indian Police Badge and pocket watch chain on his old sweater. There is another photograph noted as, "Dakon and Fletcher in El Reno, Oklahoma Territory - Southern Cheyenne Shiffers Pictures"."
"1880's Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show Photo"
This is labelled on the back as Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. There is no date.
Hmmm...
"This is an original circa 1901 photograph of the wife of Oglala Sioux Luke Slow Bear who was noted as being grandson to famous Chief Red Cloud. The photograph is marked on the back Luke Slow Bear 1901 and shows a beautiful photograph of an Oglala Sioux woman with Elk Ivory teeth dress with hairpipe bone breast plate and concho belt along with beaded moccasins and wearing blanket."
Blue Thunder
"This is an original photograph of Blue Thunder Sioux Chief, a U.S. Indian Wars Scout, by Holmboe of Mandan, North Dakota from circa 1905. The photograph is commonly referred to as a Real Photo Postcard or R.P.P.C. and consist of silver photo on postcard stock. Marked in the field and on the back shows the piece was mailed from Mandan, North Dakota on June 23, 1905. Blue Thunder enlisted as a U.S. Indian Scout at Fort Rice before transferring to Fort Yates. Brigadier General Terry wrote a special letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in D.C. requesting Blue Thunder receive special Silver Medals or Certificates of Merit, which Blue Thunder could not receive as he was not a U.S. citizen. Blue Thunder fought in a three-day gun fight at the Little Heart Butte southwest of Fort Abraham Lincoln in 1874 where he held off an estimated 100 ?wild? Sioux. He later died in 1922-1923 as a U.S. Citizen in Mandan, ND where he had become a local hero of sorts."
Blue Thuder was a Yanktonai keeper of a winter count, which had several variants.
See also
thefirstscout.blogspot.com/2011/05/blue-thunder-profile-of-us-indian.htmlLakota man. Taken at the Arthur Hohoff Studio in Chicago - possibly connected with the Wild West Show. I think I've seen other images with the same backdrop. Hohoff seems to have been active from the late 1880s to the early 1900s.
Lakota by RL Kelly
"This is an original silver albumen cabinet card of a Lakota Sioux Warrior, possibly Chief Eagle Shirt from circa 1870-1880?s"
More like 1880s-1890s."
It doesn't look like the Eagle Shirt photographed by Heyn and Matzen, circa 1898
"This is an original photograph cabinet card dated August 25th, 1899 and marked as being Crow Chief White Bird. The back is marked in fountain pen, "Crow White Bird (and) Family Chicago, IL Aug. 25th '99 (1899). The photograph shows Crow White Bird holding a Springfield Model 1873 Trapdoor Saddle Ring Carbine, the same that was used by the U.S. Cavalry soldiers."
The inscription on the back says, "Crow White Bird and Family" - nothing about him being a Crow chief:
My guess is that this shows a Wild West Show Lakota family.
"This is truly a rare photograph showing a Cheyenne Warrior holding a double batwing cutout pipe tomahawk and war shield dating to the 19th Century. The warrior has a beaded feather headdress with long trailer and is holding the double batwing pipe tomahawk with tacked haft as well is a war shield with feathered edge. The photograph cabinet card is marked on the back in fountain pen, which is not entirely legible, "Ratsgul" or something else."
This is actually Red Skirt, the Mnikowojou Lakota headman. Im thinking the writing on the back may say, "Rotsgirt," i.e. a combination of German (Rot) and a phonetic spelling of skirt.
"This is an original photograph, circa 1883, of a Sioux Chief by photographer C.F. Peterson Deadwood, South Dakota. The image shows a Lakota Sioux Warrior wearing a hairpipe bone breast collar apron with a blanket around his midsection holding an eagle feather fan and is marked in the image Sioux. There is a C.F. Peterson Deadwood, S.D. blind stamp below the image and is marked on the back in pencil: Sioux So. Dak. The albumen silver gelatin cabinet card image shows a nice image with overall condition with edge wear. An identical albumen cabinet card of this image taken slightly farther back sold from the Ed McAndrews collection at Skinners in 2010 for $1,347.50 (w/ bp) noted as Cabinet Card of a Sioux Chief by E.L. Eaton Omaha, Nebraska, 1883."
It's actually White Eagle, the Ponca headman
Rosebud Agency by Cross, 1878?
"This is an original photograph which is titled, ??Beef-day? on the Reservation? and on the back Andover, dated August 6, 1893. Andover, South Dakota is near what then was called the Flatiron Reservation, created for the ?friendly Dakota? from the Minnesota hostilities of 1862-1866. Signatories of the treaty were Gabriel Renville, John Otherday plus twenty-one other Sisseton and Wahpeton leaders. Gabriel Renville was the first Chief of the Reservation. Now it is called the Lake Traverse Indian Reservation and Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Reservation."
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