Object Details
- Kasebier, Gertrude
- Description
- Gertrude Käsebier's photographs of Native Americans represent simple, artistic portraits of Indians traveling with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and on reservations of the Dakota Sioux. Fond memories of playing with Indian children during her youth led Käsebier to write to William F. Cody with her request to photograph Indians performing in his show at Madison Square Garden in 1898.
- Nine Indians were selected to be photographed. Her studio had no elaborate backdrops and the photographs proved poignant. Käsebier sometimes removed Indian regalia from her subjects to depict the Sioux as individuals, with strong personalities and experiences spanning traditional and contemporary life.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Mina Turner
- ca 1898
- ID Number
- PG.69.236.089
- accession number
- 287543
- catalog number
- 69.236.089
- Object Name
- platinum print
- Physical Description
- platinum print (overall production method/technique)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 15.6 cm x 19.9 cm; 6 1/8 in x 7 13/16 in
- Related Publication
- Delaney, Michelle. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Warriors: A Photographic History by Gertrude Kasebier
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- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Gertrude Kasebier
- Photography
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Native Americans
- Record ID
- nmah_1005858
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-a854-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
