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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0032
Item: 00602
Title: Buffalo Boy in Sioux regalia in the Fiske Studio in Fort Yates, North Dakota
Date: 1911
Creator: Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952
Inscription/Marks: On the back: col. 86-602, and Buffalo Boy".
Summary: In his full Sioux regalia, Buffalo Boy stands for a formal photographic portrait in the studio of Frank Fiske, Fort Yates (N.D.). His attire is impressive and uniquely his. The fringe on the sleeves of his tunic is dramatically long. His leggings are edged with beaded strips, and contrasting fabric with small bells attached. His long apron is striped with ribbon. The sleeves and chest of his tunic are heavily beaded and he holds a feather fan in his hands. The distinctive headdress he wears has buffalo horns and the feathers of different birds. The image is related to the work done on the Standing Rock Indian reservation in 1911, by ethnomusicologist Frances Densmore.
Red ID: PH_I_140444 Image ID: 101697 Image Notes: 00086-00602

Collection: 00086 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Date: 1875-Circa 1960

Summary: Consists of prints and some copy negatives of several photographers on the Fort Berthold Reservation, primarily Gilbert L. Wilson, and also including Frances Densmore, Frank Fiske, Fred Olson, Sumner Matteson, and several unidentified photographers. Ewald wrote identification of many photographs in his collection based upon suggestions from the people of Fort Berthold. Images include celebrations and gatherings, dances, sweat lodges, Little Missouri camps, cradles, portraits, Buffalo Bird Woman, Wolf Chief, Goodbird, Indian crafts and skills, artifacts, wood gathering, gardening, food processing and cooking, earth lodges, bullboats, travois, and Indian cowboys.

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