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Collection Summary
Collection: 00022H - Frank J. Hutchinson Photo Collection
Folder: 0005
Item: 00059
Title: Frosted, a Dakota Sioux Medicine Man
Date: ca. 1880
Creator: Barry, D. F.--(David Francis),--1854-1934
Inscription/Marks: This photgraph is contained in a tri-fold photograph folder. On the back is pasted a printed biography of Frosted, prepared by the photographer to accompany the image.
Summary: Photographed outside a clapboard building on a patch of dirt stands Frosted, a young Dakota Sioux medicine man. Barry has shown him wearing a cloth jacket and pants with a hat. His ankle is shackled to a ball and chain. The ball hangs over his shoulder. According to the story printed on the back of the item, The Seventh Cavalry caught Frosted and placed him in a ball and chain to prevent his further encouragement of Indian action against the Crow.
Red ID: PH_I_141916 Image ID: 102880 Image Notes: 00022-H-00059

Collection: 00022H Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Frank J. Hutchinson Photo Collection
Date: 1871-1890

Summary: Includes photographs captured by David F. Barry of Northern Plains Indians and other significant people, places, and events in Dakota Territory and the American West.

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