The Indians of to-day

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Preface by G.B. Grinnell; pp. 1-185. Frank A. Rinehart was born in 1862 and learned the photographic trade in his father's studio. He opened his own studio in Omaha in 1881 and was appointed as the official photographer for the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898. As part of the Expo, Smithsonian ethnographer James Mooney designed a living ethnographic exhibition of American Indians invited as delegates to the Indian Congress. Over 500 Indian delegates traveled to Omaha from all over the country, representing the following tribes: Apache, Southern Arapaho, Crow, Flathead, Iowa, Kiowa, Omaha, Oto, Ponca, Potawatomi, Santa Clara Pueblo, Sauk and Fox, Lakota, Tonkawa, Wichita, and Winnebago. James Mooney contracted with Frank A. Rinehart, to take photographs of the American Indian delegates during the last week of the Indian Congress. Rinehart made a series of several hundred pictures forming altogether one of the finest collections of Indian portraits in existence. Rinehart and his assistant, Adolph Muhr, made over 500 glass-plate negatives and at least 1200 platinum prints in the temporary studio set up at the Expo grounds. The Rinehart photographs depict one of the best photographic documentations of Indian leaders at the turn of the century.

[1] Chief American Horse, Ogalalla Sioux; [2] Touch The Cloud, Arapahoe; [3] Little Bird, Arapahoe; [4] Chief White Buffalo, Arapahoe; [5] Little Chief, Arapahoe; [6] Yellow Magpie, Arapahoe; [7] Little Bear, Arapahoe; [8] Black Man, Arapahoe; [9] Chief Mountain, Black Feet; [10] Thunder Cloud, Black Feet; [11] Three Fingers, Cheyenne; [12] Hubble Big Horse, Cheyenne; [13] White Buffalo, Cheyenne; [14] Chief Wolf Robe, Cheyenne; [15] John Maskwas, Pottawatomi; [16] Pea-Twy-Tuck, Sac and Fox; [17] Naiche, Chiricahua Apache; [18] Bartelda, Chiricahua Apache; [19] Chief Geronimo, Chiricahua Apache; [20] Chief Josh, San Carlos Apache; [21] Nasuteas, Wichita; [22] Chief Towonkonie Jim, Wichita; [23] Six Toes, Kiowa; [24] Chief White Man, Kiowa; [25] Pablino Diaz, Kiowa; [26] Pedro Cajete, Pueblo; [27] Ex-Gov. Jose Jesus Narango, Santa Clara Pueblo; [28] Gov. Diego Narango, Santa Clara Pueblo; [29] Kicking Horse Charley, Flat Head; [30] Eneas Michel, Flat Head; [31] Head Chief Louison, Flat Head; [32] Antoine, Spokane; [33] The Man, Assinniboine; [34] Chief Wets It, Assinniboine; [35] Kill Spotted Horse, Assinniboine; [36] Spies On The Enemy, Crow; [37] Spotted Jack Rabbit, Crow; [38] Mosteose, Iowa; [39] Charles Biddle, Omaha.

[40] Dust Maker, Ponca; [41] Chief Hollow Horn Bear, Cheyenne River Sioux; [42] John Hollow Horn Bear, Cheyenne River Sioux; [43] Afraid Of Eagle, Lower Brule Sioux; [44] Sleeping Bear, Lower Brule Sioux; [45] Chief Turning Eagle, Lower Brule Sioux; [46] Peter Iron Shell, Pine Ridge Sioux; [47] Spotted Horse, Pine Ridge Sioux; [48] Eagle Elk, Rosebud Sioux; [49] Chief Goes To War, Rosebud Sioux; [50] Poor Dog, Rosebud Sioux; [51] High Bear, Standing Rock Sioux; [52] Swift Dog, Standing Rock Sioux; [53] Chief Grant Richards, Tonkawa; [54] John Williams, Tonkawa; [55] Henry Wilson/[Williams on printed list in book], Mojave Apache.