Consists of 20 photos of drawings by Robert Ormsby Sweeny, made in Minnesota in 1852.
Catalog Number 4792: (1)-(11) Tribe: Dakota Description: Dances and games at Devils Lake, near Fort Totten, North Dakota Photographer: Clara Putnam Date: ca. 1898-1900. (12)-(15) Dakota Indians camped at Devils Lake, near Fort Totten, North Dakota Photographer: Clara Putnam Date: ca. 1898-1900. (16) Non-Indian Group of white men, women, and childre...
Includes "Games played by Indian children," Autograph document signed 3 pages with 1 sketch; "How Sioux Indians receive their names," Autograph document signed 12 pages; "Thunder's Slaughter," a myth, Autograph document signed 5 pages; "One good Indian and one bad one," Autograph document signed (Dated 1903) 11 pages; "Maternity and midwifery among...
Catalog Number 4700: (1) Tribe: Dakota Description: Eagle Bill Photographer: Robert G. Parker Date: 1899. (2) Dakota Iron Tail Robert G. Parker 1899. (3) Dakota Kills Swift Elk Robert G. Parker 1899. (4) Dakota Swift Fox Robert G. Parker 1899. (5) Dakota Yellow Foot Robert G. Parker 1899.
Relate to Sitting Bull's band and others while prisoners at Fort Randall, Dakota Territory. Numbers 5, 11, 20, and 22 missing from set of 24 prints.
From a collection of approximately 3,5000 negatives made by Frank Fiske and others on the Standing Rock Reservation, ca. 1890-1950, and now in the possession of the State Historical Society of North Dakota.