Chief Two-Guns-White-Calf and Companions

ClassificationsPhotographs-stereographs

DateSeries published 1924

Made AtMontana, United States, North America

MediumPhotographic print on cardboard card

Dimensions3 3/8 x 7 x 1/2 in. (8.6 x 17.8 x 1.3 cm)

Object number83.22.34

DescriptionStereographic card of double sepia toned photographs of Blackfoot tribe's Chief Two-Guns-White Calf and other Native Americans in Medicine Lodge Ceremony in Glacier National Park, Montana. Caption below proper left image reads: “V32589 T Chief Two-Guns-White-Calf and Companions in Medicine Lodge Ceremony, Glacier National Park, Montana." "T164" is between the images and refers to the card's position in a set.

This card was manufactured and published by Keystone View Company, Meadville, Pa., New York, N.Y., Chicago, Ill., and London, England. Copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood, Inc. It is part of the "Tour of the World" stereograph series.

Detailed description on back of card:
"V32589
Chief Two-Guns-White-Calf and companions in Medicine Lodge Ceremony, Glacier National Park, Mont.
It should not be difficult to recognize the profile of the elaborately costumed Indian in the center of this group of dancers and musicians, for his is the face which served as a model for the Indian head on the 'buffalo nickel'. Two-Guns-White-Calf is a chief of the Blackfoot tribe, whose reservation adjoins beautiful Glacier National Park..."

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