Outdoor portrait of Chief Washakie or Shoots-on-the-Run or The Rattle, posed in front of Shoshone School, Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming. He wears a textile wrapped around his waist. The school is a series of four three-story stone or brick buildings, one of which has a four-story tower
Courtesy of National Museum of the American Indian
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Time Period:
1896-1896
Materials:
Techniques:
Dimensions:
3.25 x 3.75 in.
Cultures:
American Indians, Great Basin, Lemhi Shoshone, Native Americans, North America, Northern Shoshone, Plateau, Plateau (no sub-culture area), Salish (Flathead), Shoshone
City:
Fort Washakie, Wind River Reservation
County:
Fremont County
State:
Wyoming
Country:
USA
Collection History:
Colonel John W. Clark was a Civil War veteran and businessman who worked for the U.S. government as an allotment agent on the Wind River Reservation intermittently between 1885 and 1897; this print donated to MAI by Colonel Clark at an unknown date.
Source ID:
NMAI_322047
Catalog Number:
P04031
Album Name:
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