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Collection: 1952 - Frank Bennett Fiske
Folder: 0000
Item: 05028
Title: Chief Red Fish
Date: 1915-1920
Creator: Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952
Inscription/Marks: [The Fiske Portfolios, 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: Seated full length portrait in front of painted backdrop. Red Fish is wearing a beaded and fringed jacket and leggings and holding a ceremonial tomahawk and beaded pipe bag in his lap. He has an eagle feather headdress and beaded moccasins. The peace medals he is wearing were identified by SHSND Museum Curator Mark Halvorson: Bust facing left – Zachary Taylor, 1849 medal – 76, 62, & 51 mm sizes – 396 struck, 89 distributed – remainder (307) melted for Fillmore medals Bust facing right – Millard Fillmore, 1850 medal – 76 & 63 mm sizes – 281 struck, 211 distributed – remainder (70) melted for Franklin Pierce medals For additional information on medals: Francis Paul Prucha, SJ, Indian Peace Medals in American History, (Bluffton, SC: Rivilo Books, 1994), 186 pp., illustrated, notes, bibliography, index.
Red ID: PH_I_154917 Image ID: 112735 Image Notes: 1952-05028

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.

Collection Summary
Collection: 1952 - Frank Bennett Fiske
Folder: 0000
Item: 05028
Title: Chief Red Fish
Date: 1915-1920
Creator: Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952
Inscription/Marks: [The Fiske Portfolios, 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: Seated full length portrait in front of painted backdrop. Red Fish is wearing a beaded and fringed jacket and leggings and holding a ceremonial tomahawk and beaded pipe bag in his lap. He has an eagle feather headdress and beaded moccasins. The peace medals he is wearing were identified by SHSND Museum Curator Mark Halvorson: Bust facing left – Zachary Taylor, 1849 medal – 76, 62, & 51 mm sizes – 396 struck, 89 distributed – remainder (307) melted for Fillmore medals Bust facing right – Millard Fillmore, 1850 medal – 76 & 63 mm sizes – 281 struck, 211 distributed – remainder (70) melted for Franklin Pierce medals For additional information on medals: Francis Paul Prucha, SJ, Indian Peace Medals in American History, (Bluffton, SC: Rivilo Books, 1994), 186 pp., illustrated, notes, bibliography, index.
Red ID: PH_I_154917 Image ID: 112736 Image Notes: 1952-05028-negative

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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