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

Image: Willie Spotted Horse, Sioux Indian child

Platinotype: "Willie-Spotted-Horse," small boy facing forward wearing full feather headdress and breastplate made of bone?, right hand resting over left

Title: Willie Spotted Horse, Sioux Indian child

Creator: Käsebier, Gertrude, 1852-1934

Keywords: Spotted Horse, Willie

Date: circa 1898

Type: photograph

Format: platinum print; paper

ID: wfc.img.pho.69.236.84

Source: Photographic History Collection, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution 69.236.84, 2004-57868

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: Willie Spotted Horse, Sioux Indian child