William Wildschut Photograph Collection

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William Wildschut Photograph Collection

1870-1930; bulk 1917-1928

https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAI.AC.001.033

The William Wildschut photograph collection contains 183 photographic negatives, and 89 post cards. From 1917 to 1928 William Wildschut studied the Apsáalooke people through interviews, photography, and the collection of cultural objects. In 1921 Wildschut was hired as a field man by George Gustav Heye the director of the Museum of the American Indian, Wildschut officially collected and conducted field expeditions in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Canada, and North Dakota on behalf of the Museum until 1928. Wildschuts photographs include portrait style photos of Apsáalooke people, special events, daily reservation life, interments, and encampments. Tribes represented in this collection are primarily Apsáalooke, the postcard collection consists of other tribes including Lakota, Arapaho, and other unidentified tribes.

183 Negatives (photographic); 21 Photographic prints

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11658210

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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Wildschut, William

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William Wildschut, an ethnologist and field researcher for the Museum of the American Indian, was born in the Netherlands. He was the author of Crow Indian Beadwork (New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation: 1959), and Crow Indian Medicine Bundles (New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation: 1960). His biography of Two Leggings, a Crow Indian chief, was published in 1967, twelve years after Wildschut's death. From the guide to the William Wildschut paper...

Two Leggings, approximately 1847-1923

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Plenty Coups, Chief of the Crows, 1848-1932

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Plenty Coups; also known as Alaxchíia Ahú, also known as Many Achievements; was born Chíilaphuchissaaleesh (Buffalo Bull Facing The Wind) in 1848. He died in 1932 at the Chief Plenty Coups (Alek-Chea-Ahoosh) State Park and Home. Plenty Coups was the principal chief of the Crow Nation and a visionary leader. Plenty Coups allied the Crow with the whites when the war for the West was being fought because the Sioux and Cheyenne (who opposed white settlement of the area) were the traditional enemi...

Curly, approximately 1856-1923

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