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Collection Summary
Collection: 00022H - Frank J. Hutchinson Photo Collection
Folder: 0012
Item: 00135
Title: Thunder Hawk
Date: ca. 1880
Creator: Barry, D. F.--(David Francis),--1854-1934
Inscription/Marks: On the back is a printed biographical piece written by D.F.Barry to explain the subject to the buyer.
Summary: Chief Thunder Hawk stands posed against a studio prop wall, wearing a fringed leather shirt, adorned with white ermine (weasel) tails and a blanket wrapped around his trunk and legs. A pipe bone breastplate is on his chest, and a bandana secures two feathers on his head. Photo in an rectangular mat. Same as 00022H-00084. Credited with saving the life of Father DeSmet. In 1868 he persuaded Sitting Bull to accept the Treaty of Fort Laramie with the United States, which resulted in the chief and his people going to a reservation. De Smet returned to St. Louis. He died there on 23 May 1873.
Red ID: PH_I_141943 Image ID: 102908 Image Notes: 00022-H-00135

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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