Arikara man, Bloody Knife and Mr De Frane
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content: OPPS NEG.1357
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content: A picture also appears in "The Fighting Norths and Pawnee Scouts," by Robert Bruce (paper bound booklet in Bureau of American Ethnology Library, page 28.)
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content: Black and white copy negative
culture: label: Culture
content: Sahnish (Arikara)
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content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Born with the Hunkpapas, [N.D.]. His father was a Hunkpapa Sioux, his mother an Arikara. He became a famous warrior and chief with his mother's tribe and served with Custer in the Black Hills in 1876. [1874 ?] Was killed while with Reno on the day of the Custer massacre. See biography in Handbook of American Indians by G.B.G. (includes error re the Hunkpapa Reservation. Bloody Knife was born before the Reservation was established.

Mrs Frances De Frane's letter of 11-21-28 states that this picture was "taken with my husband when he was a soldier at Fort Helena...sometime before 1876 when Bloody Knife was killed...My husband is wearing a fox skin cap made and given him by Bloody Knife's sister."
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content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Photographs
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content: Digital surrogate produced from reference copy print
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content: Photographs