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Collection Summary
Collection: 01017 - Indians of North Dakota
Series:
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 00005
Title: Good Bird, a Mandan Indian, at twenty years of age, Son of "Son of the Star" and "Buffalo Bird Woman"
Date: 1891
Creator:
Inscription/Marks: [caption beneath printed photograph] Good Bird. A Mandan, Twenty Years of Age, Son of "Son of the Star" North Dakota, 1891. [Back of photograph] Col. 1017-00005. Oct 1991
Summary: Colour copy of painting of Good Bird, a Mandan Indian, at twenty years of age. Son of "Son of the Star" and "Buffalo Bird Woman". Based on a portrait by Samuel H. Logan, whose studio was at 101 Broadway, Fargo, Cass County (N.D.). Profile, head and shoulders, bare chest, his dark hair flows to the front over his left should and he is wearing an earring in his left ear lobe. Edward Good Bird was born in 1870 to Buffalo Bird Woman and Son-of-a-Star. An interpreter, artist ,and autobiographer, his account, "Goodbird, the Indian," was first published in 1914 and provided accounts of and insights into nineteenth- century Mandan life. Copied from the Image was copied from book: 1890 Census, 11th Census of the United States. Report on Indians Taxed and Indians Not Taxed in The United States (Except Alaska) at the Eleventh Census: 1890. Published by the Department of the Interior, Census Office, Government Printing Office, Washington D.C. 1894. Between pages 504 and 505. This published report consisted of 15 volumes along with a statistical atlas, reports on social and vital statistics and an Extra Census Bulletin: "Report on Indians Taxed and Indians Not Taxed." Julian Scott (1846-1901) was one of a group of eleven artists commissioned by the Federal Government to illustrate this bulletin. The resulting document was considered the most thorough study to date on Native American life. Scott did three quarters of the illustrations in the census report.
Red ID: PH_I_27387 Image ID: 146805 Image Notes: 01017-00005

Collection: 01017 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Indians of North Dakota
Date: 1890

Summary: Images of Indians of North Dakota copied from book Images were copied from book: 1890 Census, 11th Census of the United States. Report on Indians Taxed and Indians Not Taxed in The United States (Except Alaska) at the Eleventh Census: 1890) Published by the Department of the Interior, Census Office, Government Printing Office, Washington D.C. 1894. Pages 505, 509-526. Images are half-toned copies.

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