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Collection: 1952 - Frank Bennett Fiske
Folder: 0000
Item: 00087
Title: Standing Rock Indian Band at the fairgrounds
Date: 1905
Creator: Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952
Inscription/Marks: [handwritten on back of photograph] 1952-00087 Indian Band, Standing Rock. Standing: 1. W. J. Parker, 2. ? 3. Asa Little Crow 4. George Demers, 5. John Two Crow, 6. Ed Young Eagle, 7. Harry Robbins, 8. Herbert Buffalo Boy, Sr., 9. A. J. Cassidy, 10. ?, 11. ?, 12. Burkhart Meier, 13. Arthur Mandan 14. George J. Halsey, Trombone: 1. Joseph Huff, 2. Francis Zahn, 3. Charles Huber. Back 1. Tom Comes Last, 2. George Bain. Seated 1. Robert Bruce, 2. Guy Jones, 3. Robert High Eagle, 4. Dan Howard.
Summary: Standing Rock Indian band in uniforms, holding their instruments, standing in front of gazebo at Indian Fair at Fort Yates, Sioux County (N.D.). In the background, photo right, is the grandstand with dancers in regalia performing. In the background, photo left, are tents with a US flag.
Red ID: PH_I_15411 Image ID: 146844 Image Notes: 1952-00087

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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