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

Image: Flies Above

Flies Above wearing traditional regalia. Type written note below photograph reads, "Flies Above, Chief of the Cut-off Band of Sioux. Buffalo Bill's Wild West."

Title: Flies Above

Creator: unknown

Keywords: American Indians Portraits Men Cartes de visite Flies Above (Wakani Kinyan)

Date: circa 1887

Type: Carte de Visite

Format: 4.2 x 6.5 in cartes de visite

ID: wfc.img.cc.p.6.42

Source: Buffalo Bill Online Archive MS6 William F. Cody Collection

Rights: McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Center of the West

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: Flies Above