Title Flathead beauties
Call Number BS-119
Summary Two Native American women on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana pose on horseback in a field. Both have long hair in braids; each wears a dress adorned with beads. The bridles on the horses are similarly adorned with beadwork. The women sit on patterned, wool blankets that cover their wood-frame saddles. Mountains aren the distance.
Date [between 1905 and 1907?]
Photographer Boos, Edward H.
Notes Title handwritten on back of photoprint.
Photo Materials 1 photoprint ; 12 x 17 cm. (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)
1 photonegative : glass ; 13 x 18 cm. (5 x 7 in.)
1 copy photonegative ; 8 x 11 cm. (3 x 4 1/4 in.)
Condition Emulsion peeling from lower edge of glass plate.
Copyright Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
See Also Indians of North America Clothing & dress 1900- 1910. Montana
Indians of North America Women 1900-1910. Montana
Salish Indians 1900-1910.
Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.) 1900-1910.
Group portraits.
Imaged.
Glass negatives.
Photographic prints.
Film negatives.
URL http://gowest.coalliance.org/cgi-bin/imager?00150119

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