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Dance of Sioux Indians of Pine Ridge Agency, performed in honor of Pres. Coolidge – Historic Print

Dance of Sioux Indians of Pine Ridge Agency, performed in honor of Pres. Coolidge, c192- Dec. 12. — historic photograph
Dance of Sioux Indians of Pine Ridge Agency, performed in honor of Pres. Coolidge, c192- Dec. 12.. Historic photograph from the Native Americans 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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Step back in time with Dance of Sioux Indians of Pine Ridge Agency, performed in honor of Pres. Coolidge, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Staged for a sitting president, this dance at the Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota sets the stereograph apart from other views of Plains dancing. The performers were Sioux, and the Pine Ridge Reservation was home to the Oglala Lakota. Calvin Coolidge, who held the presidency from 1923 to 1929, spent part of the summer of 1927 in the nearby Black Hills, and the card's title ties the performance to that era of official visits. Keystone View Company produced stereo cards like this one for home stereoscopes, so the picture was meant to be seen in three dimensions, placing the viewer close to the dancers.

Created / publishedc192- Dec. 12.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsJ294807 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Indians--Reservatiosn; Pres. I.; SD--P- R- Agency; Indian tribes--Sioux; Indians--Dances; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,431 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-132306

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