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[Running Horse, half-length portrait, facing slightly right with arms folded; wearing feather headdress and bone breast plate] – Vintage Wall Art

[Running Horse, half-length portrait, facing slightly right with arms folded; wearing feather headdress and bone breast plate], c1899. — historic photograph
[Running Horse, half-length portrait, facing slightly right with arms folded; wearing feather headdress and bone breast plate], c1899.. Historic photograph from the Horses collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [Running Horse, half-length portrait, facing slightly right with arms folded; wearing feather headdress and bone breast plate] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Shown from the waist up and turned slightly to the right, with his arms folded, the man in this 1899 portrait is identified in the record as Running Horse. He wears a feather headdress and a bone breast plate, the regalia that studio photographers of the period often arranged for sitters from the Plains nations. Pictures like this were widely sold and reproduced, so they reflect as much about the market for images of Native people as about the sitter himself. No horse appears in the frame; the link to the gallery theme comes only through the sitter's name.

Created / publishedc1899.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900.
NotesNo. 133.
SubjectsRunning Horse. Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,156 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-165996

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