R. L. Kelly

[Dietmar]

I think it´s safe to say that R. L. Kelly mostly made portraits of Lakota people from Cheyenne River reservation.

One of them is, as I believe, this photo:



The man sitting in front likely is Chief Spotted Horse. He is known to have been in Pierre, S. D. in December 1904, acting as treasurer of a Cheyenne River group visiting the city.
In the same group was Edward Swan, interpreting for the Lakota. Although most known portraits of him show him quite older, he could be the big man standing on right, behind Spotted Horse. Ed Swan was a descendant of Chief White Swan.

[Dietmar]

The reason for the Spotted Horse identification above was this picture labeled 'Spotted Horse & White Swan':






Wolfgang has sent me today this picture found at the Smithsonian archive:





americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/edan-record/ead_component%3Asova-nmai-ac-425-ref63

Obviously this is the man in the R. L. Kelly picture.

Takes The Blanket aka Takes His Blanket lived on Cheyenne River and his name turns up in newspaper articles in 1903 and 1909, when he for example visited Pierre, S.D.

So is the Spotted Horse identification plain wrong, or is there a connection I don´t yet understand?