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[The Red Man (Sioux Indian)] - Public domain portrait print

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[The Red Man (Sioux Indian)] - Public domain portrait print

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American Indian man, probably a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, bust portrait, facing front, wrapped in blanket.
Title from negative sleeve.
Gift, Mina Turner, Käsebier's granddaughter ; 1964.

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

01/01/1900
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Contributors

Käsebier, Gertrude, 1852-1934, photographer
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Source

Library of Congress
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