Other title: Title on plate image: Porcupine from the North
Creator(s)
Morledge, C. G. (Clarence Grant)
Summary
View of Porcupine Butte from the north, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, here Native American Lakota Sioux encountered a column of the Seventh Cavalry and were ordered to a camp on Wounded Knee Creek the night before the massacre.
Date
1891
Notes
Condition: Emulsion deterioration on chipped glass plate; sky is masked with paper.; Formerly F8803; also known as CGM1373.; Hand-written on back of print: "Pine Ridge Reserve, S.D., Porcupine Butte, north view."; Inked on paper mask on sky: "No. 328."; Inked on plate border: "No. 1373" photographer monogram and title; number and monogram also inked on plate image.; R7100313030
Physical Description
1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.); 1 photonegative : glass ; 13 x 21 cm. (5 x 8 in.); 1 photoprint ; 13 x 21 cm. (5 x 8 in.)
Subject
Indians of North America--South Dakota--1890-1900.; Teton Indians--South Dakota--1890-1900.; Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890.; Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)--1890-1900.; Porcupine Butte (S.D.)--1890-1900.; Buttes--South Dakota--1890-1900.
Source
Source: Louise Stegner of Omaha, Nebraska, in 1951.
Rights
Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
