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Chief American Horse, Sioux, 1898, by F.A. Rinehart.
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Chief American Horse, Sioux / 19 inches wide by 24.5 inches high / 1898 / Rinehart

Standing studio portrait of delegate Chief Washi-ta-tonga or American Horse wearing a beaded and fringed hide shirt, beaded moccasins, and a feathered headdress. He holds a feather fan, a pipe, and a beaded pouch. Photographed at the U.S. Indian Congress of the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha, 1898.

The Indian Congress occurred from August 4 to October 31, 1898 in Omaha, Nebraska, in conjunction with the Trans-Mississippi International Exposition. Occurring within a decade of the end of the Indian Wars, the Indian Congress was the largest gathering of American Indian tribes of its kind to that date. Over 500 members of 35 different tribes attended, including the Apache chief Geronimo, who was being held at Fort Sill as a United States prisoner of war.

Frank A. Rinehart's photographs of the Indian Congress participants are regarded as one of the best photographic documentations of American Indian leaders around the start of the 20th century.

Donated by Les Rolfe.

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