The photograph was made by J. F. Jarvis.
C.
M. Bell photo of a Brule member of the 1888 delegation
to Washington named Standing Cloud:
I
do think the Jarvis photo is earlier, likely 1872, and
would account for him holding the same tobacco bag as
the Oglala High Wolf and looking younger. —
Bob Brewer / buffaloman
Standing
Cloud with Medicine Bull and Henry Bull Head, 1888:
Standing
Cloud, Medicine Bull and Henry Bull Head were headman
of the Lower Brule tribe. There is not much information
at all about the Lower Brules, who once split of from
the Upper Brules of Spotted Tail and had their own reservation.
I read the Schusky book "The Forgotten Sioux"
about the tribe, but there is not much personal information
about the individual leaders of that tribe.
Iron Nation and Medicine Bull were rated as "principal
chiefs", at least by the whites. The Lower Brules
were very peacable indians, they fought not in the Sioux
War of 1876.
[Another
Bell photo from the same sitting as above:]
—
Dietmar Schulte-Möhring