Willie Spotted Horse, Sioux Indian child
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1898
name: label: maker
content: Kasebier, Gertrude
notes: label: Description
content: Photographer Gertrude Käsebier said that it took three years to get the Sioux Indians to agree to let her photograph their children. The Sioux feared that if photographed, the child would die. Willie Spotted Horse, dressed like his elders in full feather headdress and bone breast-plate, rests with one arm on a stool, gazing directly into the camera lens.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Native Americans
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Gertrude Kasebier
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content: Photography
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mina Turner
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.69.236.082
label: accession number
content: 287543
label: catalog number
content: 69.236.082
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
label: Object Name
content: platinum print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: platinum print (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.9 cm x 15.8 cm; 8 1/4 in x 6 1/4 in