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Willie Spotted Horse, Sioux Indian child
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Photographer Gertrude Käsebier said that it took three years to get the Sioux Indians to agree to let her photograph their children. The Sioux feared that if photographed, the child would die. Willie Spotted Horse, dressed like his elders in full feather headdress and bone breast-plate, rests with one arm on a stool, gazing directly into the camera lens.
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Credit lineWillie Spotted Horse, Sioux Indian child. ca 1898. Kasebier, Gertrude. National Museum of American History, Mina Turner. CC0.
