L.R.298.b.2, 3(101)

Genre: Portrait Photography

Full-length full-face standing portrait of Black Eagle, an Assiniboin. He is wrapped in an animal skin and holds the wing of a bird. His biography is given in volume 3 of 'The North American Indian,' p.182: 'Assiniboin. Born in 1834 on the Missouri below Williston, North Dakota. He was only thirteen years of age when he first went to war, and on this and on the next two occasions he gained no honors. On his fourth war excursion he was more successful, alone capturing six horses of the Yanktonai. While engaged in a fight with the Atsina near Fort Belknap, Montana, he killed a man and a boy. In a battle with the Yanktonai he killed one of the enemy, and in another repeated the former success. Black Eagle led war-parties three times. He had a vision in which it was revealed to him that he would capture horses, and the vision was fulfilled. He had the same experience before he killed the man and the boy. He claims no medicine. Black Eagle married at the age of eighteen.'