Hand-tinted stereograph, T. W. Ingersoll, 1899, 8.9 x 17.8 cm. 

Native American Indian man (holding young child) mounted on black and white pinto horse, and boy mounted on brown and white horse.  Man is dressed in long-sleeved shirt, pants, and black cowboy hat, and boy is dressed in pink and red decorated shirt, decorated pants, and red hat.  Tipis in background. 

On front: “472.  Mounted Sioux and Camp.  Copyrighted, 1899, by T. W. Ingersoll.” 

On back: “This peaceful looking family are representatives of the Sioux nation, the fiercest and hardest fighting Indian Warriors on the continent.  After the discovery of gold in the Black Hills (a part of the Sioux reservation), the Government endeavored to buy this land from the Indians, and this invasion of their lands by the white men was seized upon by the Sioux as an excuse for war.  The soldiers succeeded in forcing Sitting Bull’s band back to the Big Horn Mountains, where they took a strong position.  The terrible battle of the Little Big Horn followed, in which Custer and all his men were killed.  The famous battle shirt belonging to the Sioux warrior, White Eagle, and which was for some time in the possession of Sitting Bull, is illustrative of the character of the Sioux Indians.  This shirt was made of heavy buckskin, trimmed with porcupine quills, gayly colored and ornamented with over 400 human scalps.  There were all colors and shades of hair, curly locks of children, long silken tresses of women, the short hair of men grown gray in service and the hoary locks of age.  White Eagle never went into battle without this shirt and he regarded it with superstitious awe, believing that his power against the ‘pale faces’ depended upon it.  A8835”