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Collection Summary
Collection: B - B Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 0155-00001
Title: Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill Cody
Date: Circa 1885
Creator: Barry, D. F.--(David Francis),--1854-1934
Inscription/Marks: "Sitting Bull & Buffalo Bill (Cody)"--Typewritten on front of photograph.
Summary: Sitting Bull is dressed in traditional regalia including a resplendent headdress and stands with Buffalo Bill Cody, wearing western wear in this full length portrait. Both man rest their hands on a rifle. Buffalo Bill Cody posed with Sitting Bull for a publicity photograph. Cody is making a symbolic gesture toward something, perhaps the West or the Future. Sitting Bull gazes quietly at the ground. Sitting Bull spent a few months on tour with Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show in 1885. In 1890, General Miles asked Cody to talk to Sitting Bull and convince him to give up the Ghost Dance. Cody was anxious to help resolve the situation, but he was sent away from the reservation before he could meet with Sitting Bull.
Red ID: PH_I_91127 Image ID: 49145 Image Notes: B0155-00001

Collection: B Digitized Images from Collection
Title: B Collection
Date: XX/XXXX

Summary:

Collection Summary
Collection: B - B Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 0155-00001
Title: Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill Cody
Date: Circa 1885
Creator: Barry, D. F.--(David Francis),--1854-1934
Inscription/Marks: "Sitting Bull & Buffalo Bill (Cody)"--Typewritten on front of photograph.
Summary: Sitting Bull is dressed in traditional regalia including a resplendent headdress and stands with Buffalo Bill Cody, wearing western wear in this full length portrait. Both man rest their hands on a rifle. Buffalo Bill Cody posed with Sitting Bull for a publicity photograph. Cody is making a symbolic gesture toward something, perhaps the West or the Future. Sitting Bull gazes quietly at the ground. Sitting Bull spent a few months on tour with Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show in 1885. In 1890, General Miles asked Cody to talk to Sitting Bull and convince him to give up the Ghost Dance. Cody was anxious to help resolve the situation, but he was sent away from the reservation before he could meet with Sitting Bull.
Red ID: PH_I_91127 Image ID: 49146 Image Notes: B0155-00001-back

Collection: B Digitized Images from Collection
Title: B Collection
Date: XX/XXXX

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