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Collection: 1952 - Frank Bennett Fiske
Folder: 0000
Item: 03524
Title: Alma Red Fish, Red Fish and Eva Little Chief
Date: Undated
Creator: Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952
Inscription/Marks: [Fiske Portfolio] NOTES ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS Plate 9. RED FISH AND DAUGHTERS. The front pieces of both daughter’s dresses are of cow bone “hair pipes” with thick hide spacer, trimmed with brass beads and yarn. The dresses are of list or strode trade cloth using original selvedges of cloth and ribbon applique for decoration. The girl on the left has dentalia sewn onto the shoulders of the dress while the one on the right has elk teeth/ Red Fish’s head dress is buffalo horns and fur, trimmed with prairie chicken feathers. The elaborately fringed deer skin jacket is decorated with quill work. The fringed pipe bag is also decorated with beadwork. Across his chest is a string of deer hooves mixed with pieces of metal and shell and two unidentified peace meals. The stem of the catlinite elbow pipe is decorated with fur, horsehair wrapping and quillwork. Ca. 1900-1904. 7 ¾ x 9 ¼ Note: this description is for a alternate portrait that was taken the same day as this portrait. This portraPortfolios, 1983] NOTES ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS 21. RED FISH. The eagle feather head dress is in the upright manner, more typical of the middle of the nineteenth century. Most of Red Fish’s clothing and adornment is the same as Plate 9 [RED FISH AND DAUGHTERS]. The pipe is unique because the hatchet form bowl is entirely of catlinite (The same pipe appears in Plate 30 MISSION PRIESTS). No date. 6 ¾ x 9 ¼.
Summary: Studio portrait. The women stand on either side of Red Fish who is seated wearing fringed buckskins and holding a pipe.
Red ID: PH_I_154742 Image ID: 112559 Image Notes: 1952-03524

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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