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
- Date: circa 1898
- Type: photograph
- Format: platinum print; paper
- People: Sitting Holy
- Topics: Lakota Performers
- 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
The William F. Cody Archive, Buffalo Bill Center of the West and University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Published under a Creative Commons License.