Crow Indian Crossing the Little Bighorn River

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DescriptionCrow man on horseback, crossing the Little Big Horn River, 1899. See BPL 2013.01.491 (same man). Smithsonian Institution Notes: Fred E. Miller (1868-1936) accepted a position in 1898 as a clerk for the Bureau of Indian Affairs on the Crow Reservation in southeast Montana. For almost 14 years, Miller lived among and photographed the Apsa?alooke (Crow) people, learned to speak the language, and was officially adopted into the nation. Listed at Smithsonian as Negative 56272, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.TypeImageCreatorMiller, Fred E.GenrephotographsDate1899SubjectCrow IndiansLittle Bighorn River (Wyo. and Mont.)HorsesContributing InstitutionBillings Public LibraryGeographic CoverageCrow Indian Reservation, MontanaDigital CollectionBillings - Images of PlacesDigital Formatimage/jpgDigitization SpecificationItems were scanned with a Kodak ngenuity 9125 or a Panasonic KV-57075C at 300 DPI using Papervision Capture Scan software.Date Digitized2015copyrightNoC-US

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