Photo Puzzle of Whistling Elk, Stands For Them

[jhafnor]

First, thanks to Kingsley for thinking to send along Mellette County/Rosebud census info (1910) to me this January. Yes, that is the Stands For Them I'm researching for the novel, and his father Elk Robe, who I believe died the following year.

Now, I have a small mystery. Attached are a couple of late photos of Stands For Them (circa 1935?)in which he poses in full regalia and with Peace Medal(looks like Millard Fillmore when magnified)

Then also attached is a man of perhaps 70 years, named Whistling Elk, praying for peace in Korea at a 1952 gathering at Bear Butte. He is clearly in Stands For Them's regalia, minus the peace medal. Stands For Them had died in 1939. Would the "borrowing" of a suit have been common, accepted? We believe the regalia eventually ended up in the Buffalo Bill museum in Cody, Wyo.

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[jhafnor]

Opps. The Stands For Them photos did not attach. How does one attach a new image when the thread has commenced???

[jhafnor]

Here is one of the photos of SFT.

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[ladonna]

In our way family would give the regala to another person as an honoring so you could see
the same outfit on another person