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The Indian Stockmen Selecting and Branding these Selected Mares Before Taking Them to Their New Homes

Crow Indian Gardeners & Farmers 1930s

Description:

"The Indian Stockmen Selecting and Branding these Selected Mares Before Taking Them to Their New Homes": A group of horses stand grazing in a field, clumped tightly together. The Indian Stockman are about to sell them, after the have been branded and examined.

Culture or Community:

Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)

Other Forms:

Original: black and white glossy photographs

Date of Creation:

1936

Physical Details:

Black and white glossy photograph placed in brackets, attached to a page in report.

Catalog Number:

CIVAM-NARA #9034.1

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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 #9034.1

Creators:

Charles S. Runyan, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

Keywords:

1930's

Branding

Mares

1930s

Crow Indian Reservation

Image

Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)

Crow Indians

image

Black & white image

Horses

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