Crow women, Mary Takes A Gun (left) and Lizzy Shane Yellowtail holding Robert Yellowtail ?
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.56253
label: Local Note
content: Original (?) number 84 (penciled on reverse of original print).
label: Local Note
content: University of Montana, Museum and Northwestern Historical Collection, copy negative number 54-577U
label: Local Note
content: Handwritten in pencil by Mary Elrod Ferguson (who got the information from Minnie Williams) on reverse of original print, "Left to right: Yellowtail's mother, [and] Mary Takes a Gun." Subject identified by Robert Yellowtail in letter to Hulda Fields, January 11, 1968 (see xerox of letter with catalog card for negative number 56255), as follows: "As to the picture of the two women and baby, they are 1. Lizzy Shane Yellowtail, my mother. The other woman, her sister--Mary, 2 yrs. younger. My mother is still alive and 100 years old: she says she was about 13 yrs. old when Custer Battle was fought. The baby boy is me I am told."
label: Local Note
content: The baby identified as either Jonathan or Irene Takes the Gun, by Crow Indians through Barney Old Coyote, Spring, 1969.
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Miller, Fred E.
label: Names
content: Takes the Gun, Irene
label: Names
content: Takes the Gun, Jonathan
creator: label: Creator
content: Miller, Fred E.
culture: label: Culture
content: Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
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 / Miller, Fred E.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The photographer was at the Crow Agency only during the years 1897-1910; he took no Indian photographs after leaving the Crow Agency-- information from John Fields (1967), grandson of the photographer.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1897-1910
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs