Native Americans by Frank A. Rinehart
Author: peter Date: 14 November, Category: Educative, Visits 6324
Frank A. Rinehart, a commercial photographer in Omaha, Nebraska, was commissioned to photograph the 1898 Indian Congress, part of the Trans-Mississippi International Exposition. More than five hundred Native Americans from thirty-five tribes attended the conference, providing the gifted photographer and artist an opportunity to create a stunning visual document of Native American life and culture at the dawn of the 20th century.
Although the portraits are posed and artistically lighted in his studio, they have a candid intimacy that allows his subjects individuality and dignity, a quality not shared by most 19th-century ethnographic photography. Rinehart printed the photographs as platinum prints, a photographic medium known for its delicate tonal range and permanence.
High Bear, Sioux, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Chief American Horse, Sioux, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Cloud Man, Assinaboine, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Four Bull, Assinaboines, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Hattie Tom, Apache, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Little Bird, Arapahoe, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
White Buffalo, Cheyennes, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Chief Goes To War, Chief Hollow Horn Bear, Sioux, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Chief Little Wound, Ogalalla Sioux, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Naiche – Hereditary Chief, Chiricahua Apaches, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Thunder Cloud, Blackfeet, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Little Bear, Arapahoe, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Mosteose (Holy Rabbit), Iowa, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Black Otter, Arapahoe, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Spies On The Enemy, Crow, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Yellow Magpie, Arapahoe, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Yellow Feather, Maricopa, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Brushing Against, Little Squint Eyes, San Carlos Apaches, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Black Man, (Arapahoes), 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Juan Jose, Pueblo (Santa Clara), 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Antoine Moise, Flathead, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
White Swan, Crow, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Pedro Cajete, Pueblo, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Pablino Diaz, Kiowa, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Cloud Man, Assinaboines, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Howard Frost, Interp., Omahas, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
White Swan, Crows, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Spies On The Enemy, Crow, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Chief Wets-It, Assinaboine, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Freckled Face, Arapahoe, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Vapore, Maricopa, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Three Fingers, Cheyennes, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Pancho, Maricopa, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Gov. Diego Narango, Pueblo (Santa Clara), 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Henry Wilson & Wife, Mojave (Apache), 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Arapahoe Chief, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Josh, Chief, San Carlos Apaches, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Hattie Tom, Chiricahua Apache, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Chief Grant Richards, Tonkawa, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Pete Mitchell (Dust Maker), Ponca, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
In Summer, Kiowa, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)
Chief Wolf Robe, Cheyenne, 1899. (Photo by Frank A. Rinehart)