Iron Breast--Piegan – Historic Print
(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 Iron Breast--Piegan. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Iron Breast, a Piegan man, is posed with a tomahawk in this portrait made around 1900. The print is Curtis number 51 and was later published as plate 206 in a supplementary volume of *The North American Indian*. The Piegan are one of the Blackfoot-speaking peoples of the northern Plains, whose homeland spanned what is now northwestern Montana and southern Alberta. Curtis aimed in portraits like this to record traditional dress and possessions at a time when reservation life and government policy were rapidly changing those everyday practices.
| Created / published | c1900. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900.Photographic prints 1900. |
| Notes | Curtis no. 51. LC no. 79. Copyright by Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, Suppl. v. 6, pl. 206. |
| Subjects | Iron Breast. Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1900. Piegan Indians--Clothing & dress--1900. Tomahawks--1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,747 × 4,652 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222286 |
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