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Unidentified photographer
14 Spotted Tails Daughter
19th century (late)
Stereoview, half
British Museum
Museum number: Am,B37.11
LL/101005
Photograph (black and white), half of a mounted stereoscope photograph; studio portrait of a Brule Lakota woman (daughter of Spotted Tail) sitting in front of a painted backdrop depicting landscape; the woman wears her hair in plaits, with shell ornaments worn in her hair or as earrings; she also wears a shell choker necklace, and a striped blanket wrapped around herself; United States of America.
Curator's comments (Accessed: 5 June 2020)
Acquisition/Associated name: This image is stored in a box labelled as "William Blackmore". There is no associated documentation to determine that the collection was acquired from the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury in 1932, at the same time as Blackmore albums within the BM Pictorial Collection.
Photographer: Unidentified.
Associated information: A handwritten note in PicDoc 308 reads: "Photo c/2994 - Spotted Tail's Daughter. [May] match known Carlisle Indian School photo of 'Red Road', who became Mrs Sarah Tackett upon marriage in 1878. - Peter Harrison - English Westerners Society"
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