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
Photographic portrait of three Cheyenne chiefs and an interpreter visiting Colonel Oelrichs at Oelrichs, Dakota, July 4, 1887. The three Indian chiefs are at right and are identified as Chief Standing Elk, Chief Running Hog, and Chief Little Wolf. Standing Elk is wearing a large feather headdress, and all three are dressed in traditional plains Indian clothes. The interpreter, also identified as Standing Elk, is at far left and is an Indian wearing Western clothes. Colonel Olerichs is at center and is dressed in civilian clothes. All of the Indians are carrying carbines. There is a wooden building in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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