Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-09-26
Photography To
Preserve Record
OF BlaCkfeets
Public Appreciation Of Project
Expressed at Plains Museum
Open House Sunday Evening;
Collection by n. N. Suffer

Collection by n. N. Suffer
The Plains Indian Museum 4
open house Sunday evening, whelr
Browning citizens were availeo
their first opportunity to visit the
institution ut night, was a source
Of inspiration to several hundred
persons, the event being from 7
to 10.
A recent acquisition, which en-
hances the appeal of exhibits. is
the collection of photographs of
some of the outstanding full
blood Blackfeet Indians, taken
by H. NJ. Suffer. marketing spec.
ialist of the Indian Service.
The collection, which will be
enlarged as to include several
generations of the Blackfeets and
which will occupy almost exclus-
lively one of the rooms on the
ground floor, is being prepared
as federal official project. the
negatives to be filed in Washing
ton. D. G. to make possible any
replacement that should b.
needed as the result of theft or
other cause.
Though over the years many
excellent photographs of h e
Blackfeets have be en- taken by
different individual s, there are
no known collectio MS. according
to Mr.. Suffer. With no effort to
assure their preseI walton having
been made, numer Gus p h o :
graphs of Blackfe cts. now d e .
ceased, have one one way or an
other been destroyed. Fire a
year or so ago destroyed a col
lection deemed priceless.
In photogra',hing the several
living general ions Mr.. Suffer ex-
plains, he is mbitious for COM
oaratlvely complete record of
one of Americas most outstand-
ing Indian tribes, public appre-
citation OF the prof ect as expressed
Sunday evening being encour-
for a prt ject Of consid-
cradle magnitude
Sunday evening 9 collection ex-
hibited included photographs of
the following in dividuals, each
photograph havin g been enlarged
from a 81 by At negative to an
II by Ia:
Dick Sanderviltr, Theodore
Last Star. MRS. Last Star, Mr..
Wades In Water. Mr.. and Mrs.
Yellow Kidney. Slabs By Mis-
take, Double Ru an er, Mrs. Chief
Coward, John CLARK, Albert Calf
Rope. Aims Back, Mrs. Yellow
Kidney. Mr.. Chief Coward. John
Old Chief, Tom Spotted Eagle,
Maggie Stoo Cat, Mr.. Yellow
Kidney. Calvin Las Star, Philip
Arrow Top, Mr.. ard Mrs. Mad
Plume and Judge Nc Coat.
The collection incl udes a group
of perst ms in The re-
cent induction ritual recently
when Mrs. Nash, wife of Roy
Nash, superintendent of the
Blackfeet Indian Reservation,
was adopted into the tribe as
Eagle Woman"
Besides Indian por tariture Mr..
Suffer plans TO photo graph land
scapes and other scenes in this
section. provided that they have
a historical bearing upon the
photographic story of the Black
feets. ST irving for that which
is authen tic, he solicits the COOP
GRAFTON OF all able to contribute
to the pr 'ject's success.
Mr.. Su tier, a member of the
Suffer ia mily tree. whose roots
extend d eeply into California soil
in the world known drama of
John Su tier ano James MarshalPs
discover of gold at Coloma in
l848. points out that his photo
graphic project is Il quest for
gold. yet something Of enduring
value with all Of humankind
i they so choose, be coni,,g CRATE
[ul ben, .ficiaries.