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Blackfoot tipis – Historic Reproduction

Blackfoot tipis, c1927. — historic photograph
Blackfoot tipis, c1927.. 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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Pictured here are tipis of the Sihasapa, the people better known as the Blackfoot, who lived across the northern Great Plains in what is now Montana and southern Alberta. The conical lodges were built from poles and hide, designed to be taken down and moved with the bison herds that sustained the Plains nations. By the 1920s, many Blackfoot families lived on reservations and in more settled communities, so photographs from this period often show traditional dwellings still in use alongside changing ways of life. Keep in mind that such images were made by outside photographers, whose choices of framing and subject shaped how the people were portrayed.

Created / publishedc1927.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1930.
SubjectsIndians of North America--Dwellings--Great Plains--1920-1930. Sihasapa Indians--Dwellings--1920-1930. Tipis--Great Plains--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,279 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-178050

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