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

Image: Photograph of Whirling Horse, Sioux Indian mounted with drawings of buffalo, tipi, Indian and horse

Platinotype: Left profile of Sioux male with full feather headdress; mounted; contains crayon and ink drawings of a buffalo, Indian on horseback and tipi, possibly by subject of the photograph

Title: Photograph of Whirling Horse, Sioux Indian mounted with drawings of buffalo, tipi, Indian and horse

Creator: Käsebier, Gertrude, 1852-1934

Keywords: Whirling Horse

Date: circa 1898

Type: photograph

Format: platinum print; paper

ID: wfc.img.pho.69.236.77

Commentary: Audio commentary on "Photograph of Whirling Horse, Sioux Indian mounted with drawings of buffalo, tipi, Indian and horse"

Source: Photographic History Collection, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution 69.236.77, 2004-57860

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: Photograph of Whirling Horse, Sioux Indian mounted with drawings of buffalo, tipi, Indian and horse