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

Image: Charging Thunder, Sioux Indian

Platinotype: Right profile of "Whirling Hawk," red "GK" at lower left. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, original negative identifies Indian as "Charging Thunder."

Title: Charging Thunder, Sioux Indian

Creator: Käsebier, Gertrude, 1852-1934

Keywords: Charging Thunder (Wakinyan Watakpe or Wakiinya Wakuwa)

Date: circa 1898

Type: photograph

Format: platinum print; paper

ID: wfc.img.pho.69.236.64

Source: Photographic History Collection, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution 69.236.64, 2004-57846

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: Charging Thunder, Sioux Indian