Blackfoot
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Black and white photograph of a group of Blackfoot men on horseback wearing traditional clothing.
Black and white photograph of a Blackfoot man on horseback in an extravagant traditional regalia and feathered head-dress, subtitled "Blackfoot Dandy".
Subject holding rifle, sitting on animal hide wearing traditional clothing. Shot in studio. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
Historical note:
Robinson Lyndhurst Wadmore, who was born in England in 1855, entered the Canadian forces as a lieutenant in 1883 and served with the Royal Canadian Regiment during the Northwest Resistance of 1885. Wadmore became a colonel in 1910. He died in Victoria, BC, in 1915.