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Platinum Portrait of American Horse and wife, Sioux Indians, by Gertrude Kasebier

Kasebier, Gertrude

Gertrude Käsebier's photographs of Native Americans represent simple, artistic portraits of Indians traveling with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and on reservations of the Dakota Sioux. Fond memories of playing with Indian children during her youth led Käsebier to write to William F. Cody with her request to photograph Indians performing in his show at Madison Square Garden in 1898.

Date

ca 1898

Type

platinum print

Medium

platinum print (overall production method/technique)

Department

NMAH

Institution

National Museum of American History

Object number

nmah_1005858

Credit

Mina Turner