Smithsonian catalog states this is supposedly Red Cloud

[Californian]

The Smithsonian Institution's Anthropological Archives bills this as an image of Red Cloud - have my doubts that this is accurate

[Dietmar]

Hi Californian,

funny (or actually sad), that the Smithsonian hasn´t been able to correct this error, that exists for so long. Joanna Cohan Scherer has written an essay on this particular photograph many years ago. It does not show Red Cloud, but a manikin.

Scherer´s text has been published several times, for example in 'Viewpoints: Visual Anthropologists at Work' by Mary Strong and Laena Wilder. It can be found online.

However, the photo is still interesting, because the manikin wears Oglala Chief Smoke´s shirt.

[Californian]

thanks Dietmar, the image I copied off the Smithsonian catalog is on low resolution, honestly I would have never guessed that it could have been a manikin. Having browsed far and wide within the catalog I did indeed notice quite a few misattributions and outright errors, particularly when it comes to dating. Some Frank Fiske images (i.e. really made by Fiske, not legacy duplicates from his predecessors) for example are dated as 1880's whereas that fotographer only got active in the early 1900's. That goes also for some of their Red Cloud portraits where clearly the dates are off.