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

Image: Chief Lone Bear, Sioux Indian

Platinotype: Seated portrait of "Lone-Bear" in full feather headdress with bow and arrows in left hand, wearing vest with "Buffalo Bill's Police" written on a star-shaped badge, embossed signature at lower right, mounted with caption: "LONE BEAR" on mount

Title: Chief Lone Bear, Sioux Indian

Creator: Käsebier, Gertrude, 1852-1934

Keywords: Lone Bear (Oglala Sioux chief)

Date: circa 1898

Type: photograph

Format: platinum print; paper

ID: wfc.img.pho.69.236.45

Source: Photographic History Collection, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution 69.236.45, 2004-57826

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 Lone Bear, Sioux Indian