Portrait of Curley Bear
name: label: Photographer
content: Gill, De Lancey, 1859-1940
label: Names
content: Curley Bear, -1926
place: label: Place
content: North America
creator: label: Photographer
content: Gill, De Lancey, 1859-1940
culture: label: Culture
content: Pikuni (Piegan) [Blackfeet Nation, Browning, Montana]
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (16 x 20 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1903
container: label: Container
content: Box 2008-03
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The portrait was given to Dr. Arthur A. Snyder (1859-1949) of Washington, D.C. by De Lancey Gill.  After Snyder's death, it passed to his widow and then to his granddaughter, Sophy Burnham.  Burnham donated it to the National Anthropological Archives in 2008.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2008-03
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Works of art
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of a framed glass-plate gelatin positive portrait of Curley Bear, also known as Curly Bear and Car-io-scuse) taken by De Lancey W. Gill, Bureau of American Ethnology photographer, in January 1903.  

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) holds the original negative from which this image was produced in Photographic Negatives of Native American Delegations and Archaeology of the Southwestern United States, 1879–1907 (NAIL Control Number NWDNS-106-IN-37).

The National Anthropological Archives holds additional photographs of Curley Bear from the same sitting in the Bureau of American Ethnology negatives (BAE GN 382, 383A, 383B).