John B. Shoberg portraits of Plains chiefs
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 83-30
name: label: Creator
content: Shoberg, John B.
label: Photographer
content: Lou Sweet Studio
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Blackfeet
creator: label: Creator
content: Shoberg, John B.
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1918
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by John B. Shoberg, 1983.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.83-30
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Studio portraits
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Studio portraits
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Portraits of Chief Curly Bear, Chief Big Spring, Chief Shoots, Chief Little Chief, and the wives of Curly Bear, Little Chief, and Little Light. The chiefs wear war bonnets and medals and were among "the last of the 1870-1880s Indian Chiefs of the Indian/White wars, and their squaws. . . brought to Minneapolis to have oil paintings made. . . for the T. B. Walker Art Gallery." The photographs were made by Shoberg at the Lou Sweet studio in Minneapolis.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs of Chiefs Curly Bear and Little Chief can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 24 and the BAE historical negatives.