Cheyenne man, White Bull
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.56082
label: Local Note
content: Grinnell (The Fighting Cheyennes, 287) says that White Bull, who was a medicine man, made the war bonnet that Roman Nose (Bat) wore when he was killed with the Cheyennes fighting against the army scouts at Beecher Island in 1868."- Photographer on an Army Mule, page 111.
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Barthelmess, Christian
creator: label: Creator
content: Barthelmess, Christian
culture: label: Culture
content: Northern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Barthelmess, Christian
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Barthelmess at Fort Keogh during 1888-97 period.

A different pose is reproduced in Frink & Barthelmess, Photographer on an Army Mule, Norman, 1965, ff. page 104 with caption "White Bull, who served with Miles in 1877 and later enlisted in Casey's scouts. He was a medicine man and, after the Northern Cheyenne reservation was established in 1884, became one of the tribal judges."

"White Bull was one of the Northern Cheyenne who surrendered to Miles at Fort Keogh in 1877. He was held by Miles as a hostage for the surrender of others, and a few days later he was the first of thirty Cheyennes recruited by Miles for scout duty. He was in the group on Muddy Creek when Lame Deer tried to kill Miles.

White Bull scalped Lame Deer and his nephew, who were both killed by soldiers at that time. ...In his late years he was still an important personage among the Cheyennes, as indicated by the fact that Christian Barthelmess, in identifying the photograph he took of this old warrior, wrote his name: 'Jutch [Judge] White Bull'.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1888-97
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Photographs
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content: Photographs