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Sup't Yellowtail Showing "Roosevelt" on the Crow Reservation, 1936

Crow Indian Gardeners & Farmers 1930s

Description:

"Sup't Yellowtail Showing "Roosevelt" A Registered Morgan Stallion That Heads the Morgan Herd on The Crow Reservation": Sup't Yellowtail poses on Roosevelt, his registered and tacked Morgan stallion, in front of a fence. He is wearing a cotton shirt and pants with a cowboy hat as he holds on to Roosevelt's reins with one hand and his mane with the other.

Culture or Community:

Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)

Other Forms:

Originals: b&w glossy photograph

Date of Creation:

1936

Physical Details:

One of two black and white glossy photographs placed in brackets, attached to a page in report.

Catalog Number:

CIVAM-NARA #8989.1

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Provenance:

The photographs in this collection were published in the annual reports of the extension agent for the U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Extension and Industry at the Crow Reservation. (The text of the reports has not yet been added to the CIVAM collection.) The report photographs were copied by Cindy Ott at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C. in March 2015. Cindy Ott organized three exhibitions of a dozen of the photographs at senior centers in the towns of Crow Agency, Lodge Grass, and Pryor on the Crow reservation in summer 2017. (Catalog records of individual photographs document which ones were exhibited.)

Citation:

Charles S. Runyan, Agricultural Agent, U.S. Dept of Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Field Service, “Annual Report of Division of Extension and Industry: Crow Reservation; To Director of Extension and Industry; From January 1, 1936 to December 31, 1936.” Records of Bureau of Indian Affairs (RG 75), Central Classified Files, 1907-39; Crow; 40761-1912-.023.1 To 130-1936-031; Box 2: PI-163 E-121 HM 2001. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. CIVAM-NARA #8989.1

Creators:

U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Extension and Industry, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Extension and Industry, Charles S. Runyan

Keywords:

1930's

Clothing

Fences

Photograph

Yellowtails

1930s

Cowboy hats

Horses

Saddle

belts

Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)

Crow Indian Reservation

Indians of North America

Stallions

leather

Black & white image

Crow Indians

Men

United States--Great Plains

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