Capt. Geo Sword, chief of police with Buffalo Bill's Indians, Pine Ridge Agency, S.D. / W.R. Cross, portrait & view photographer, ... Hot Springs, S. Dak.
Summary
Members of Lakota or Sioux tribe in predominantly traditional dress, posed with police chief in uniform.
10047W U.S. Copyright Office.
No. 480.
These portraits are valuable records that document Native American dress and customs at the end of the nineteenth century during an active period of Indian removal and hostilities against Native Americans.Library of Congress holds one of the most important collections of Native American photographic portraits.
Native Americans Portraits
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Date
01/01/1891
Contributors
Cross, W. R. (William R.), photographer
Location
Pine Ridge (S.D.), 43.02556, -102.55639
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain