Sioux leader No Neck and his family sit with Spotted Tail and his family on a wood platform in a camp for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Ambrose Park in Brooklyn, New York. No Neck sits in the left foreground wearing a feather headdress and holding a ceremonial pipe across his lap. His wife sits next to him with a striped blanket wrapped around her shoulders. A young boy, probably their son, stands behind them. Spotted Tail stands in the right foreground near his seated wife. He has two feathers on the back of his head and also holds a ceremonial pipe. His wife also has a striped blanket wrapped around her. A tent is set up behind the group.
Description
1 photoprint ; 16 x 21 cm. (6 x 8 in.) on album sheet 25 x 30 cm. (9 3/4 x 11 1/2 in.)
Is Part Of
Salsbury collection, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.; Salsbury collection, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, album 4.
Subject
No Neck--Family; Spotted Tail, 1823-1881--Family; Wild west shows--1880-1920; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917; No Neck; Spotted Tail, 1823-1881; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
Format-Medium
Photograph
Rights Contact Information
Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History and Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, at photosales@denverlibrary.org.
Reproduction Available for Purchase
Yes (digital reproduction)
Related Material
Image File: ZZR700105593
Notes
"Souvenir of Ambrose Park 1894 Stacy 5th Ave. and 7th Brooklyn, N.Y." handwritten on first page of album; album sheet has number "6" penciled below photoprint.; Title handwritten on album sheet below photoprint.; Vintage photographic print.; R7001055935
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