[Holy Frog(?) (left) and Big Turnips(?), American Indians]
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Holy Frog(?) and Big Turnips (?), probably members of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, half-length portrait, one wearing a headdress.
Title from mount of corresponding print in LOT 10136.
LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1964).
Handwritten note on recto above photograph: One on left: Holy Frog? + Big Turnips?
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.
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