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Collection Summary
Collection: 00670 - George William Hill
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 00049
Title: Scouts and their tipis at Fort Rice (D.T.) Stereo
Date: 1869-1883
Creator: Morrow, Stanley J
Inscription/Marks: [inventory] "Scouts and their Tepees at Fort Rice, D.T." - three tipis visible. (Stereo)
Summary: Four Indian scouts and two young boys and a dog stand in front of theirthree tipis at Fort Rice (D.T.). The two boys sit on the ground in front photo left, and a dog stands in the background right. Meat dries on a rack behind the Scouts. Arikara men, and sometimes Dakotas, enlisted in the Scouts. They were issued Army clothing, rations, and weapons. They and their families received medical care from the post surgeon. They received pay for their services. Arikaras would have lived in permanent earthlodges when they were at home, but when attached to the Scouts, they lived in tipis near the post with their families.
Red ID: PH_I_152127 Image ID: 109778 Image Notes: 00670-00049

Collection: 00670 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: George William Hill
Date: 1868-1882

Summary: This collection contains seventy-five stereograph scenes photographed by Stanley J. Morrow between 1868 and 1882, six portraits of North American Indians by C. L. Hamilton, Fort Randall (D.T.), and two stereographs by Benjamin Franklin Upton from his series of Indian Portraits and Views. The Morrow stereographs includes views of the Badlands, signers of the Peace Treaty between the Rees, Gros Ventres and Mandans of Fort Berthold and the Sissetons (Sioux) of Fort Totten (D.T.), Yankton and Missouri River scenes and steamboats, Fort Totten and vicinity, Fort Abercrombie, Fort Stevenson, Fort Buford, Fort Berthold, Fort Rice, Fort Sully, Fort Thompson and vicinity, the Cheyenne Agency, Grand River Agency, and Santee Mission. The Upton stereographs show Indian village scenes and portraits. The C. L. Hamilton photographs are mostly full length portraits of Indians who were interned at Fort Randall (D.T.).

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