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[Iron White Man, Sioux American Indian]

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[Iron White Man, Sioux American Indian]

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Iron White Man, probably a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing headdress and a Buffalo Falls Police star-shaped badge.
LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1964).
Gift, Mina Turner, Käsebier's granddaughter ; 1964.
Title from mount of corresponding print in LOT 10136.

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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01/01/1900
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Käsebier, Gertrude, 1852-1934, photographer
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