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Denver Public Library
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Big Foot
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Call Number
X-31424
Creator
Morledge, C. G. (Clarence Grant)
Date
circa 1891 January 3
Summary
View of the slain body of Chief Big Foot, Native American, Miniconjou Lakota Sioux, propped up in the snow on the Wounded Knee battleground, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. U. S. soldiers, civilian burial party members, and a stovepipe from an army tent show in background.
Physical Description
1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photonegative : glass ; 22 x 17 cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.); 1 photoprint ; 13 x 21 cm (5 x 8 in.)
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Analog
Subject
United States. Army
Dakota Indians--South Dakota--Wounded Knee
Indians of North America--South Dakota--Wounded Knee
Miniconjou Indians--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee
Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890
Wounded Knee (S.D.)
Wounded Knee Creek (S.D.)
Campaigns & battles--South Dakota--Wounded Knee
Massacres--South Dakota--Wounded Knee
Tribal chiefs--South Dakota--Wounded Knee
War casualties--South Dakota--Wounded Knee
Big Foot.
Collection
Photographs - Western History
Related Material
Image file: ZZR710031424
Type of Material
Film negatives
Glass negatives
Photographic prints
Digital Version Created From
Louise Stegner of Omaha, Nebraska, in 1951 or Max.
Notes
Condition: Emulsion deterioration on plate. Formerly F8924. Title and "89" inked on plate image; "No 1120" and photographer monogram inked on top plate border hand-written on back of cropped print; "No 18" inked on top border; copyright photographer from another plate shows on print. R7100314248
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Denver Public Library Special Collections, [call number]
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Morledge, C. G. (Clarence Grant),
Big Foot
(circa 1891 January 3). Denver Public Library Digital Collections, accessed 15/01/2026, https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1046203