[After Water-Bird Rattler]

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Object Details

sova.naa.photolot.176_ref12354

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3c6b8d891-85f0-48fb-b2a7-f292e8da5f89

Local Numbers

BAE GN.413 A

Topic

Blackfeet

Culture

Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)

Indians of North America -- Great Plains

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Bureau of American Ethnology negatives

Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Gill, De Lancey W.

Biographical / Historical

Wife of Bird Rattler. Her full name was Going after Water Bird Rattler. Before her marriage to Bird Rattler her name was Short Robe. She was a skilled crafts worker (beadwork, rawhide painting). She died in the summer of 1943 or 1944. She was the mother of Cecile Black Boy, an able interpreter. According to the Reservation Census of Dec. 31, 1939, she was a full blood, then 70 years of age. (J.C. Ewers, Jan. 1949). Born 1868. Home: Blackfoot Agency, Montana.

Extent

1 Glass negative

Date

1923

Archival Repository

National Anthropological Archives

Type

Archival materials

Glass negatives

Photographs

Genre/Form

Photographs

NAA.PhotoLot.176_ref12354

Large EAD

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3c6b8d891-85f0-48fb-b2a7-f292e8da5f89

NAA.PhotoLot.176

NAA

Record ID

ebl-1628267668517-1628267670999-2

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