Unidentified man, said to be Crazy Horse
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.44110
label: Local Note
content: Frink sent "a copy of a photograph I recently obtained on the Pine Ridge reservation with the information that it is Crazy Horse. My informant said it was 'taken from a tintype in 1876.'" (Correspondence in Smithsonian Institution files).
label: Local Note
content: It seems unlikely that Crazy Horse would have had his picture made in a studio or with a studio backdrop. As far as I know, Crazy Horse spent no time in "civilized" areas until his surrender at Red Cloud Agency, May 15, 1877. It is possible that some itinerant photographer could have photographed him at the Agency in the period between this date and his death from a bayonet wound at Fort Robinson (on the Red Cloud Agency) in 1877, but such a photo probably would not have a backdrop like the one in this photo. --MCB
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
topic: label: Topic
content: Sioux
culture: label: Culture
content: Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (4 1/2x6 1/2 in)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Published facing page 132 in J. W. Vaughn, With Crook at the Rosebud. (Harrisburg, 1956). Caption: This rare old tintype of Crazy Horse never before published, believed by Jake Herman, 5th member of the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council to be the only existing, authentic picture of the great Oglala chieftain who led the Sioux against Crook at the Battle of the Rosebud. - Courtesy, Oglala Sioux Tribal Council.
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content: Photographs