Some Goff odds and ends.
Although Goff worked at Fort Assiniboine, I haven't come across any Goff photos of Native Americans taken around there except for this one:
A Cree Indian showing off a scalp - the reverse notes it was taken in 1903 at Havre:
However, he did photograph the Metis leader Gabriel Dumont while at Fort Assiniboine:
Gabriel Dumont, shortly after he arrived in Montana in 1885:
"A lengthy article, “Gabriel Dumont’s Photograph,” appeared in the [Bismarck] Tribune during Goff’s 1885 summer/fall sojourn at Fort Assiniboine. The article was occasioned by the paper’s receipt of a photograph of Gabriel Dumont, military commander of Louis Riel’s forces during 1885’s Riel Rebellion in Northwest Canada. Following the rebellion’s failure, Dumont fled Canada. The Tribune article, describing the image in the photo, reported that Dumont was of medium height, square, stout frame, with light moustache and burnsides, high cheekbones, broad forehead, expanding nostrils, knit brows and prominent jaw and chin. He was dressed more like a laborer than a leader. His cheqquered [sic] shirt was covered only by an open vest, while a scarf over his right shoulder supported a provision sack. His right arm rested on his faithful pony and in his left was the barrel of the gun which had been aimed at many of the oppressors. . . . Dumont stated that it was the first picture of him ever taken."
www.history.nd.gov/publications/goff-article.pdfThis portrait is also credited to Goff. Although I've read that it was taken during his brief period with Cody's Wild West Show, he's wearing the same shirt as above, so I suspect it was taken round about the same time.
This is supposed to be a group of Lakota women from 1873-77; I suspect it's a later (i.e. post 1885) photo because the type of beaded waistcoat that the boy's wearing doesn't appear in photographs until the mid-late 1880s and his hairstyle doesn't appear to be Lakota.
Also credited to Goff is this photo purporting to show 'Sitting Bull's son.' I've also seen it labelled, "Lone Sitting Bull" and "Sitting Bull, Jr." It has been suggested that this is Louie/Louis Sitting Bull or perhaps Jumping Bull/Little Assiniboine - though the latter was Sitting Bull's adopted brother, not son. Louie may have been the son of one of Sitting Bull's sisters or maybe a stepson, or maybe no relation at all. In an email, Dietmar qoted the March 1886 Emmons County Record:
Louis Sitting Bull not related to the famous Chief.
It develops that the claims of Louis Sitting Bull, who is held at Bismarck on the charge of rape, for notoriety are not based on sufficiently sensational grounds to entitle him to such consideration. He is credited with being the only son of the famous Indian Chief Sitting Bull, whose cruelty and skill as a leader of the hostile Indian bands are matters of history. But the present prisoner is not related to the old dead chief except by marriage, and instead of being his son, is the son of a sister of Sitting Bull´s wife. The prisoner is now about thirty-two years old, and when sixteen years of age murdered a hunter [James Lawler] by shooting him in the back. He has always been a dissolute Indian, and the crime for which he is now charged is alleged to have been committed on the person of an aged squaw. The extreme penalty is death, but it is not likely the prisoner will ever be executed, as he is nearly dead from the effects of a loahtsome disease, prevalent among the tribe.The photograph has also been credited to Barry and for good measure, I've seen it in a Haynes mount.
As for Jumping Bull, he was 32 in 1881 and the assumption is that it was taken shortly after his surrender, but the backdrop is not the same one seen in the Barry photos of Gall, Crow King and Low Dog. I would have thought it unlikely that he had been photographed earlier on, say, a visit to Fort Abraham Lincoln during the 1870s, prior to 1876.
Thomas Fly? Louie Sitting Bull? Perhaps, though, this is the the man photographed by Barry in the early-mid 1880s:
And by Scott in the late 1880s
I'd be happier if I'd seen the backdrop and props in the alleged Goff photo somewhere else.
Brave Bear, the Cut Head Yanktonai
We've already this - another photo sometimes credited to Haynes. There's an excellent thread about him here where Dietmar and Louis Garcia provide much information:
amertribes.proboards.com/thread/446/bob-brave-bearTo cut a long story short, this must have been taken in the mid 1870s, possibly as early as 1873 or 74, after which, he took part in the killing of a Metis family called Delorme in Pembina and was arrested in 1874 (perhaps it was during this period he had his photo taken), but he escaped in 1877 or 78 and there were claims he joined Sitting Bull in Canada - his brother was part of Sitting Bull's immediate following and was photographed by Cross at Fort Randall:
The image is labelled 'Brave Bear's wife and brother.' Both figures are, of course, actually men.
However, he was accused of killing a settler at Standing Rock in 1879 and then another man later in the year. He was hung on 15 November 1882. He claimed to be Sitting Bull's brother in law at his trial, which was untrue and didn't go down well with Sitting Bull.
This photo must have been taken during his final captivity, possibly during his trial. Maybe his clothing was given to him, along with the haircut.
This image by Barry, taken early-mid 1880s, is sometimes labelled Bob Brave Bear:
It's also sometimes labelled as Louie Sitting Bull, presumably because it looks like he's weraing pretty much the same outfit as Louie in that photo above, but you'll notice the hair is cropped or possibly tied back. In Barry's catalogue, he's labelled as Bob Brave Bear's brother.
Here's another credited to Goff:
I've seen this man named Soup, but also Two Crow and credited to Haynes. There was a Hunkpapa Two Crows who was 33 in 1881. It's not the Two Crow who appears below, however. The image is also the basis for an etching of the Cree leader, Poundmaker, used in reports on the 1885 Rebellion, though it's clearly not him
Trading post at Fort Berthold, 1879 - that may be Crow's Breast (or the man sometimes identified as him) sitting with the eagle wing fan.
Two Crow with son and daughter, Arikara
Two Crow, Arikara
Mrs Nagle/Naegle and Susie, her daughter, Mandan. Susie later attended the Hampton Institute and eventually lived on the Crow reservation as a missionary
Here's Susie (at right), with Mary Walker (Hidatsa) in 1884. Not sure of the photographer. This may be the sister of Sarah Walker, who also ended up on the Crow reservation, teaching.
Susie's tribe is given as Arikara in this photo, but here, it's said to be Mandan:
www.twofrog.com/hamptonfem2.txtAnother Goff from Berthold
Mandan section of Like-a-Fish-Hook
Mandan bull boat
The exploits of Black Fox, Arikara
Various Native American items - you can see Black Fox's exploits under there
One of his Crow images, labelled 'Indian Courier'
Old Crow woman
Unidentified young Crow woman
Young Crow woman
Officer and wives at Fort Abraham Lincoln, circa 1875. Standing at the back is Long Soldier, either an Arikara or Lakota. He's sometimes labelled as Bloody Mouth, but he clearly isn't.
Is this the same man as below:
This image has been identified as Long Soldier, Hunkpapa, born around 1819. Taken, I guess in the mid-1870s.
The same as this man, also said to be Long Soldier, but this time an Arikara, in a photo usually credited to Barry, therefore about ten years later?
I don't think this is the man in the uniform, but I'm not sure it's the man behind the officers. To complicate matters, Dietmar has noted that he's also seen the man in the hat indentified as Hidatsa, so presumably one of the Berthold photos Goff was taking around that time. I think this may have solved the identity problem...
amertribes.proboards.com/thread/2605/long-soldier