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[Yellow Horse--Yanktonai, half-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, with long braids, two eagle feathers in hair, wrapped in buffalo skin] – Vintage Photo Print

[Yellow Horse--Yanktonai, half-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, with long braids, two eagle feathers in hair, wrapped in buffalo skin], c1908. — historic photograph
[Yellow Horse--Yanktonai, half-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, with long braids, two eagle feathers in hair, wrapped in buffalo skin], c1908.. Historic photograph from the Horses 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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A window into the past: [Yellow Horse--Yanktonai, half-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, with long braids, two eagle feathers in hair, wrapped in buffalo skin], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Yellow Horse, a Yanktonai man, stands for this half-length portrait with long braids, two eagle feathers in his hair, and a buffalo skin wrapped around him. The Yanktonai are one of the Nakota, or Sioux, peoples of the northern Plains, and Edward S. Curtis made this portrait around 1908 while working on *The North American Indian*, his multivolume survey of Native peoples that began in 1907. It was published on page 124 of volume 3. Although the gallery groups it under horses, no horse appears in the picture, whose interest lies in the clothing and the sitter's upright, unhurried pose.

Created / publishedc1908.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1910.Book illustrations 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesH118519 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Curtis no. 2456-05. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, v. 3, p. 124.
SubjectsYellow Horse. Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1900-1910. Yanktonai Indians--Clothing & dress--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,285 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-191127

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