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1. L.R.298.b.2, 3(76)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 3(76)
Title:
The medicine-man. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length full-face portrait of Slow Bull, an Ogalala Sioux medicine-man, standing in a grassy landscape. 'Invocation and supplication enter so much into the life of the Indian that this picture of the grim old warrior invoking the Mysteries is most characteristic....
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 item

2. L.R.298.b.2, 3(77)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 3(77)
Title:
Ogalala war-party. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of a group of Sioux on horseback: 'Here is depicted a group of Sioux warriors as they appeared in the days of intertribal warfare, carefully making their way down a hillside in the vicinity of the enemy's camp. Many hold in their hands, instead of weapons, mere ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 item

3. L.R.298.b.2, 3(78)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 3(78)
Title:
Two-Strike. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders, half-profile portrait, turned to the left, of Two-Strike, a Brulé Sioux chief. A biographical sketch of Two-Strike appears in volume 3 of 'The North American Indian', page 190: 'Born 1821. At the age of twelve he accompanied his first war-party ag...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 item

4. L.R.298.b.2, 3(79)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 3(79)
Title:
Sioux chiefs. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of three Sioux chiefs on horseback. 'Very often two or three men would form themselves into a war-party and ride away to be gone weeks or months. Sometimes they returned with scalps, or horses, or women; and again the war-party, whether large or small, met d...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

5. L.R.298.b.2, 3(80)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 3(80)
Title:
An oasis in the Bad Lands. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of Red Hawk, an Ogalala Sioux, astride his horse, which is drinking from a pool on a wide grassy plain. 'This picture was made in the heart of the Bad Lands of South Dakota. The subject is the sub-chief Red Hawk, a sketch of whose life is given on page 188 o...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

6. L.R.298.b.2, 3(81)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 3(81)
Title:
Jack Red Cloud. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders profile portrait, turned to the right, of Jack Red Cloud, an Ogalala Sioux. 'The subject of this portrait is the son of the Ogalala chief Red Cloud.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 item

7. L.R.298.b.2, 3(82)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 3(82)
Title:
Hollow Horn Bear. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait of Hollow Horn Bear, a Brulé Sioux. A biography of him is given in The North American Indian, volume 3, p. 186: 'Born I850. First war-party at twelve, against Pawnee. At nineteen he took the pipe and led a party, which killed a n...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 item

8. L.R.298.b.2, 3(83)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 3(83)
Title:
The Sun Dancer. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a sun dancer of the Teton Sioux: 'As they dance, the performers never leave the spot on which they stand, the movement consisting in a slight upward spring from the toes and ball of the foot; legs and body are rigid. Always the right palm is extended to t...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 item

9. L.R.298.b.2, 3(84)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 3(84)
Title:
Slow Bull — Ogalala. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders profile portrait, turned to the left, of Slow Bull, a subchief of the Ogalala Sioux. A biographical sketch of Slow Bull appears in The North American Indian in volume 3, p.189: 'Born 1844. First war-party at fourteen, under Red Cloud, against Apsar...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 item

10. L.R.298.b.2, 3(85)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 3(85)
Title:
Brulé war party. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of a group of Sioux on horseback, moving across the plains: 'This rhythmic picture shows a party of Brulé Sioux re-enacting a raid against the enemy.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 item

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