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Collection: 1952 - Frank Bennett Fiske
Folder: 0000
Item: 00045
Title: "Broncho Kid," Harry Poor Dog on horse
Date: 1906
Creator: Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952
Inscription/Marks: [in red gouache on negative envelope] Broncho Kid. Fiske Foto [bio-Bismarck_Tribune_Thu__Feb_18__1915_p02] Cat and Dog Become Man and Wife in Ceremony At Fort Yates. Fort Yates, N.D. Feb. 17 The wedding of Miss Rose High Cat and Harry Poor Dog occurred Sunday [February 14, 1915] at the Catholic Church, Rev. Father Bernard officiating. Both the parties are popular youn Indian people of Bullhead district.
Summary: Profile, full length outdoor portrait of Harry Poor Dog on horse. He is wearing cowboy hat, dark vest over work shirt, leather chaps and riding boots. A lasso is looped over the horn of his saddle and the horse has its winter coat. They are standing off the snow-covered road in front of a field. The photographer’s shadow is in the foreground, lower photo left.
Red ID: PH_I_15445 Image ID: 145834 Image Notes: 1952-00045

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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