Blood Indian chief: Wolf Collar
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.53603
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Elliott Studio
creator: label: Creator
content: Elliott Studio
culture: label: Culture
content: Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Kainai Blackfoot (Kainah/Blood)
label: Culture
content: Sihasapa Lakota (Blackfoot Sioux)
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Elliott Studio
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Identified as Wolf Collar from portrait of same man, taken by Long Lance and reproduced in The Mentor, Volume 12, Number 2, March, 1924, page 2, with the following caption: "Famous Blackfoot medicine man, the only medicine man of the old school of mystics left alive among the Indians of the Northwestern plains. The feats this wizard has performed are hard to believe. He is ninety years old and the virtual ruler of the tribe. Though his normal expression is impenetrably stony, when he smiles, displaying two rows of perfect white teeth, he radiates a warmth of human kindness. He is master of all the arts and crafts known to the Indian. His sacred 'medicine,' the thunderbird (eagle), is seen painted on his tepee just over his right shoulder. It was given to him in a vision when he was struck by lightning at the age of seventeen, and lay dead apparently for twelve hours.

The medal is an "Indian Chief medal" bearing the portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary), who visited Canada in the autumn of 1901. Similar medals were distributed on the occasion of the great assembly at Calgary, Alberta, September 28, 1901, --V. Clain-Stefanelli, 8/5/63
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content: 1 Photograph (3x5 in)
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
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content: Half-length, seated. Wearing beaded buckskin shirt, holding cane (?), wearing medal and several strands of beads around his neck.