Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of the burial of Sioux Indians after the massacre at Wounded Knee, 1890. A large trench is cut into the ground at left, and the bodies of many Indians have already been piled in. Several bodies are on the ground to the right of the grave. Two white men stand in the grave with their hands on their hips. More armed soldiers are standing on the ground above the trench, all wearing long coats and fur hats to protect from the winter weather. Over one-hundred of the approximately three-hundred Indians killed in this fight were buried in this trench.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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