Hand-tinted stereograph, T. W. Ingersoll [?], c. 1899, 8.9 x 17.8 cm. 

Several animal skins laid out on grass in front of wagon and tipi.  Additional skins hanging in wagon.  Native American Indian man (sitting with gun) and woman (standing) outside tipi. 

On front: “460.  The Old Chief.  The Beaver’s Camp.” 

On back: “After the annual hunt and when the meat has been dried and packed away for winter’s use there remains the care of the skins, which, like all other work about the camp, falls upon the squaw.  Seated to the left of the teepee is old Chief Beaver.  In front of the tent is his wife.  In the foreground is the skin of a deer recently killed; in the background, those of a number of antelope and upon the framework of the wagon, those of coyotes and smaller animals.  Just beyond the skin which is pegged to the earth will be noted a hide with a mass of dark brown and white patches upon it.  These are the brains from the various animals which have been killed and which will be used by the squaw in tanning the hides.  Chief Beaver, although an old man, is still one of the most skillful of the Sioux hunters and one of the few Indians who really know how to shoot a rifle as well as white men.  Indians are notoriously poor shots with the rifle.  A8835”