Studio (?) profile portrait of an unidentified woman, wearing a long cotton-print dress, with a shawl or blanket around her waist and lower body. She is seated in a shelter (?) or in front of a fabric backdrop
Courtesy of National Museum of the American Indian
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Time Period:
1904-1904
Materials:
Techniques:
Dimensions:
6.5 x 8.5 in.
Cultures:
American Indians, Central Plains, Native Americans, North America, Northern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne), Plains, Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
City:
Lame Deer, Northern Cheyenne Reservation
County:
Rosebud County
State:
Montana
Country:
USA
Collection History:
Anthropologist, naturalist, and author George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938) worked among Plains tribes, especially the Cheyenne, from the 1870s onward. Photographs taken by his wife Elizabeth Curtis Grinnell during his fieldwork probably accompanied the objects he donated to MAI in 1922.
Source ID:
NMAI_353989
Catalog Number:
N13625
Album Name:
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