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

Image: Chief Iron Tail, Sioux Indian

Platinotype: 3/4 view of "Iron-Tail" looking at camera, hands in lap, wearing breastplate made of bone?, green mount with caption: "IRON+TAIL" and initials "GK" on mount, (photo detached from mount)

Title: Chief Iron Tail, Sioux Indian

Creator: Käsebier, Gertrude, 1852-1934

Keywords: Iron Tail, or Siŋté Máza, 1842-1916

Date: circa 1898

Type: photograph

Format: platinum print; paper

ID: wfc.img.pho.69.236.40

Commentary: Audio commentary on "Chief Iron Tail, Sioux Indian"

Source: Photographic History Collection, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution 69.236.40, 2004-57821

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: Chief Iron Tail, Sioux Indian