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Collection: 1952 - Frank Bennett Fiske
Folder: 0000
Item: 00327
Title: Mission priests Father Bernard Strassmaier, Father Ambrose W. Mattingley, Robert Grass, Gray Hawk, No Heart, and Louis Endres, Fort Yates (N.D.)
Date: 1910
Creator: Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952
Inscription/Marks: [facsimile file] Father Bernard Strassmaier, Father Ambrose W. Mattingley, Robert Grass, Gray Hawk, No Heart, and Louis Endres Photo used in ]Portfolio 2, Plate 30; and Murray Lemley Standing Rock Portraits p105 [The Fiske Portfolios, 1983] NOTES ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS 30 MISSION PRIESTS. The Catholic Church very early established missions at Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Pictured are Father Bernard, seated right, Father Ambrose, seated left and possibly Father Matin Kenel, standing on the left. The other men are not identified. In the middle foreground, seated, an Indian man has an eagle feather head dress mounted on the crown of a felt hat. The cape is cougar skin. He holds a catlinite pipe int eh form of a hatchet and at his feet is what appears to be a stone-headed ceremonial war club. No date 6 ¼ x 8 ¼.
Summary: Full length studio portrait of Benedictine priests with Indians in regalia. The Catholic Church very early established missions at Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Pictured are Father Bernard Strassmaier, seated right, Father Ambrose W. Mattingley, seated left, and possibly Father Martin Kenel, standing on the left. The other men are Robert Grass, Gray Hawk, No Heart, and Louis Endres. In the middle foreground, seated, No Heart has an eagle feather headdress mounted on the crown of a felt hat. The cape is cougar skin. He holds a catlinite pipe in the form of a hatchet and at his feet is what appears to be a stone-headed ceremonial war club.
Red ID: PH_I_141431 Image ID: 185431 Image Notes: 1952-00327

Collection: 1952 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Frank Bennett Fiske
Date: 1880-1952

Summary: Includes prints and negatives of portraits, agriculture, education, wildlife, hunting, Frank Fiske studio portraits, and some views of South Dakota. Fiske’s Native American photographs include portraits, Indian gatherings and ceremonies, boarding schools, Indian houses and dwellings, and Native American agriculture. Fiske’s documentation of daily life on the reservation includes such shots as Sioux customers waiting for a Fort Yates trading store to open; a Sioux dance in the streets of Fort Yates; a plow issue before the agency boarding school; an encampment of tipis, including those traditionally painted; and three Indian men being taxied off the reservation to join the army in WWI.

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