Portrait of Chief Mahpina Luta or Red Cloud (1822-1909), wearing a shirt(?) and bandana, long silver hair, 83 years old. Per Curtis: "Dreaming of the past..."
Courtesy of National Museum of the American Indian
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Time Period:
1905-1905
Materials:
Techniques:
Dimensions:
5.5 x 7.5 in.
Cultures:
American Indians, Central Plains, Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux), Native Americans, North America, Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux), Plains
City:
Pine Ridge Reservation
County:
Shannon County
State:
South Dakota
Country:
USA
Collection History:
Edward Sheriff Curtis opened his first photo studio in 1892 in Seattle, Washington, and began photographing Native subjects. In 1899, he was appointed official photographer of the Harriman Expedition to Alaska and served on other expeditions as well. In 1906, American financier J. P. Morgan (1837-1913) commissioned Curtis to create a multi-volume documentary work on American Indians with 1500 photographs. The final volumes were published in 1930, by which time Curtis had taken 40,000 photographs documenting 80 tribes. This print probably from the collection of Brigadier General James M.J. Sanno (1840-1907, U.S. Army); inherited by his daughter Mrs. Montgomery Waddell (Genevieve Sanno Waddell, 1870-1948); donated to MAI in General Sanno's memory at an unknown date.
Source ID:
NMAI_312051
Catalog Number:
P13695
Album Name:
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