Chief American Horse, Sioux, No. 1003

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Scope and Contents: Photographic portrait of Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux) Chief Washi-ta-tonga, also known as American Horse, in traditional clothing. Photographed at the U.S. Indian Congress Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha, 1898.

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U.S. Indian Congress of the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition photograph album

Creator

Rinehart, F. A. (Frank A.)

Summary

This photograph album contains 18 photographic portraits of American Indian delegates at the U.S. Indian Congress of the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska, 1898. Frank A. Rinehart and Adolph F. Muhr's photographs of the Exposition are considered one of the most comprehensive photo documentations of American Indian leaders at the turn of the century.