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Gui-K'ate (Sleeping Wolf or Wolf Lying Down) and wife (Kiowa)

Alexander Gardner (1821-1882)

Object Details

  • Date

    1872

  • Object Type

    Photographs

  • Medium

    Albumen silver print

  • Dimensions

    Image: 7 9/16 x 5 1/16 in.
    Mount: 8 1/2 x 6 1/16 in.

  • Inscriptions

    Recto:

    l.c. in image: SLEEPING WOLF & SQUAW. KIOWA.3.

    l.l. in image: 407

    Mount Recto:

    u.c. in graphite: Sleeping Wolf (Kiowa)

    Mount Verso:

    u.c. printed on paper label: 407. SLEEPING WOLF.

    u.c. to l.c. in graphite: 412- Neg.No. \ 1387 \ Kiowa [marked through] \ Sleeping Wolf.-\ Am-Kati="Wolf Lying down," \ commonly known to the whites as "Sleeping Wolf". \ Record chief of the Kiowa tribe and \ government leader in the outbreak of \ 1874-5. Shot and killed in quarrel with one of his \ own tribe 1877 [underlined]. Photo while delegate in \ Washington 1872. The name is hereditary \ in the tribe & has been borne by at least \ five successive individuals, the first of \ whom negotiated the original [crossed out] permanent \ peace between the Kiowa Comanches about \ 1790. \ JM [underlined]

  • Collection Name

    Bureau of American Ethnology Collection

  • Credit Line

    Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

  • Accession Number

    P1967.2870

  • Copyright

    Public domain

Additional details

Location: Off view
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