Posts Tagged ‘Alexander Gardner’
Little Wolf at Laramie by Alexander Gardner, 1868
Little Wolf was married to Quiet One and Feather on Head, and he had two sons, Pawnee and Woodenthigh, and a daughter, Pretty Walker.
— inkpaduta1981
Little Wolf and Others at Fort Laramie by Alexander Gardner, 1868
According to P. Powell, the man on the left is Short Hair, a Cheyenne council chief, who was obviously in mourning at the time and kind of feebleminded. I remember reading somewhere that the man in the center could be Dull Knife.
— Dietmar Schulte-Möhring
Little Wolf and Dull Knife in Washington, 1873
Little Wolf and His Wife by George Bird Grinnell, 1898
Little Wolf by Grinnell (from the Roberts Article in Montana Magazine)
— Dietmar Schulte-Möhring
Friday in Washington, 1873, by Alexander Gardner
The photograph was taken by Alexander Gardner in November 1873 in Washington, D.C. That year, a delegation of Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho from the Red Cloud Agency went to the capitol with their agent, Dr. John J. Saville, to discuss their hunting rights as well as their future home (they were concerned about being political marginalized when placed at an agency with the powerful Lakota). They met with a delegation of Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho in Washington and attended meetings together. They appear to have gone to Gardner’s studio together, who produced a whole series of great Cheyenne and Arapaho portraits.
By the mid-1870s, Friday’s role as an Arapaho leader had been largely overshadowed by the rise of several younger men, specifically Black Coal and Sharp Nose. Generally in the documents of this period, Friday is listed as the Arapaho interpreter.