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American Indian chiefs. Spotted Tail – Historic Print

American Indian chiefs. Spotted Tail, [between 1890 and 1940] — historic print
American Indian chiefs. Spotted Tail, [between 1890 and 1940]. Historic print 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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This rare historic print captures American Indian chiefs. Spotted Tail in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Spotted Tail, a Brulé Lakota leader, is the subject of this numbered color card from a series of advertising cards featuring American Indian chiefs. The catalog files him under Dakota Indians, but his people were Brulé Lakota, and he led them through the late 1800s, a period of broken treaties and confinement to reservations. He was killed in 1881 near the Rosebud Agency. The subject headings also include smokeless tobacco, a sign that the card was made to sell tobacco rather than to record his life.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1940]
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone, color.
GenreAdvertising cards 1890-1940.Halftone photomechanical prints Color 1890-1940.
NotesNo. 14.
SubjectsSpotted Tail. Indians of North America--1890-1940. Dakota Indians--1890-1940. Tribal chiefs--1890-1940. Smokeless tobacco--1890-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,446 × 1,163 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216834

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