Northern Cheyenne Chiefs at LBH

[harpskiddie]

Kenneth Ferguson - WOW!!!!

[Diane Merkel]

Ken Ferguson is an LBHA member. His Custer print was on the Newsletter cover earlier this year, and I am very pleased to own his Sitting Bull print. He donates a VERY generous portion of the proceeds of that Giclee print to the battlefield.

Please look at www.kennethfergusonfineart.com. You'll be glad you did!

[Dietmar]

Grahame,
Thanks for all these photographs.
There were several men called Whirlwind in Cheyenne history. The man in the Snell photo and in the 1872 photo must be Old Whirlwind (ca.1823-1891), a Southern Cheyenne chief of the Peneteka faction of the Hevhaitaneo (Hair Rope) band, in reservation times situated west of Watonga, Oklahoma on the North Canadian River. (see John H. Moore “The Cheyenne Nation”)
His son was called Young Whirlwind, maybe he wears the war-bonnet in the last photo.
There also was a warrior named Little Whirlwind among the Northern Cheyenne.

Diane,
Kenneth Ferguson stated somewhere on the internet that he collected a lot of material about the life of the Cheyenne Brave Bear. Perhaps he can contribute something to the book project?

Dietmar

[Diane Merkel]

Great suggestion, Dietmar. Thank you!

[grahamew]

The Carter photo of Whirlwind - identified as Southern Cheyenne, so it may be Young Whirlwind - can be found with other Carter images, including pictures of Utes, Paiutes, Snakes and Cheyenne at www.eastman.org/fm/st02/htmlsrc2/carter_sld00001.html

[charlie]

I can to add this infos about WOLF ROAD: born in 1847 in North Dakota, he was 1/2 Sioux and 1/2 Cheyenne (Southern?). Indian's name: Ho'neheemeo. Adopded brother of Man on a Cloud. His wife was "Sioux Woman". He died in 1911. Can anyone to add other infos?

[WY Man]

Sept 3, 2006 11:36:00 GMT -6 grahamew said:

Here's the photo of Whirlwind I mentioned above:



Do you reckon this is another Snell photo? If it's the same Rising Elk, he's mentioned in the Darlington Census as aged 50 in 1887, which looks about right:




Finally, is this THE Dull Knife? If so, when was it taken, because he seems to look a lot younger than the man photographed in 1872 in Washington?

Hi Grahamew:

Are you talking about the famous photo of Little Wolf and Dull Knife with the curtain backdrop? "Morning Star Dawn," by Jerome Greene, and "Holding Stone Hands," by Alan Boye both credit that photo as being taken in 1873.

First, let me say that I find your photo very interesting, because I have been aware of the same photo for several years, and I have been trying to track down something about it, or to locate the original of this photograph. I know of this photo from the publication, Annals of Wyoming, Vol. 28, No. 1 (April, 1956) in an article, The Hole-in-the-Wall, by Thelma Gatchell Condit, p. 34. The photo she uses in her article has been cropped at the bottom, so as not to show the acquisition number, 87732, which is plainly visable in your photo.

So, I must ask, where and how did you obtain the photo that you used in your post? From the diagonal moire pattern that can be seen in the background of your photo, it appears to have been made from a published photo.

I think that it probably is the Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife. There does seem to be a strong resemblence in the facial features, with Dull Knife in the LittleWolf/Dull Knife photo. Although the lighting of the LittleWolf/Dull Knife photo reveals many shadowed areas that are washed out in the "87732" photo, the main features common in both photos, i.e. eyes, nose, mouth cheekbones and chin, all conform to each other in shape.