William F. Cody Archive: Documenting the life and times of Buffalo Bill

Image: High Heron, Sioux Indian performer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West, tipi behind

Platinotype: Dakota Indian male on horseback, High Heron, wearing breastplate made of bone?, teepees in background; mounted with printer's notes: illegible blue script on left margin of mount, "2 1/2" written in blue on lower margin, "150" circled and "16545-6" in pencil on lower margin; "290E" in blue on verso

Title: High Heron, Sioux Indian performer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West, tipi behind

Creator: Käsebier, Gertrude, 1852-1934

Keywords: High Heron

Date: circa 1898

Type: photograph

Format: platinum print; paper

ID: wfc.img.pho.69.236.66

Commentary: Audio commentary on "High Heron, Sioux Indian performer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West, tipi behind"

Source: Photographic History Collection, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution 69.236.66, 2004-57848

Rights: Smithsonian Institution

Funding and support provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Wyoming Community Foundation, Wyoming State Parks & Cultural Resources, the Dellenback Family Foundation, Adrienne & John Mars, and Naoma Tate & the Family of Hal Tate.

Banner image: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming, U.S.A.; Original Buffalo Bill Museum Collection, P.69.118

The William F. Cody Archive, Buffalo Bill Center of the West and University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Published under a Creative Commons License.

The William F. Cody Archive: Documenting the life and times of Buffalo Bill

Image: High Heron, Sioux Indian performer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West, tipi behind