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[Sitting Bull, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, holding calumet] – Historic Photograph Print

[Sitting Bull, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, holding calumet], c1881. — historic photograph
[Sitting Bull, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, holding calumet], c1881.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Sitting Bull, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, holding calumet]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This half-length portrait shows Sitting Bull, the Hunkpapa Lakota leader, seated and facing the camera with a calumet, the ceremonial pipe used in treaty-making and sacred occasions. The picture dates to about 1881, the year he surrendered to U.S. authorities after years in Canada following the Little Bighorn. The mount on the back names O.S. Goff of Bismarck, Dakota Territory, a photographer working on the northern plains at a time when the region was undergoing rapid change. The pipe he holds, rather than a military uniform or weapon, signals how he wished to be seen.

Created / publishedc1881.
Medium1 photographic print on cabinet card mount.
GenrePortrait photographs 1880-1890.Cabinet photographs 1880-1890.Photographic prints 1880-1890.
Notes1263(?) U.S. Copyright Office. On verso: O.S. Goff, Bismarck, D.T.
SubjectsSitting Bull,--1831-1890. Calumets--1880-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan981 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-111957

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