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

Image: Sitting Holy, Sioux Indian

Platinotype: Full frontal view of Sioux Indian in full feather headdress, beads on right side of face and around neck and wearing breastplate made of bone? Identified on separate mounts as "Sitting Holy" and "Kills-Close-to-the-Lodge". The Library of Congress, Division of Prints and Photographs holds the original Käsebier negative and identifies this Sioux as "Luke Big Turnips."

Title: Sitting Holy, Sioux Indian

Creator: Käsebier, Gertrude, 1852-1934

Keywords: Sitting Holy

Date: circa 1898

Type: photograph

Format: platinum print; paper

ID: wfc.img.pho.69.236.52

Commentary: Audio commentary on "Sitting Holy, Sioux Indian"

Source: Photographic History Collection, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution 69.236.52, 2004-57834

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: Sitting Holy, Sioux Indian