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George Sword (Man Who Carries the Sword / Hunts the Enemy)
Subject: George Sword, later Captain of the Pine Ridge Indian Police
Nation: Oglala Lakota (Sioux)
Location/Association: Pine Ridge, South Dakota
Original Portrait Date: 1877
Print Date: Circa 1900s
Format: Silver-Print Photograph
Overall Dimensions: Approximately 7 x 5 inches
Original early 20th-century silver photograph depicting Oglala Lakota leader George Sword, also known as Man Who Carries the Sword and Hunts the Enemy. Full-length seated portrait showing Sword wearing traditional clothing, fur-wrapped braids, decorated moccasins, and a single upright feather. He holds a decorated sword-like implement across his lap, with a fringed pouch hanging below and a large feathered headdress arranged beside him.
This portrait has been reproduced in historical publications identifying Sword, who subsequently commanded the Pine Ridge Indian Police. The original photographic portrait is dated 1877 in Kingsley M. Bray's Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life. A small handwritten inventory notation appears on the reverse of the present print.
Reference:
"Hunts the Enemy (George Sword), 1877."- Kingsley M. Bray, Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life, University of Oklahoma Press, 2006, photographic illustrations following p. 286. Photograph credited to the Nebraska State Historical Society, NSHS-1392:39-4.
"Man Who Carries the Sword later took the name George Sword"- Mark R. Ellis, "Reservation Akicitas: The Pine Ridge Indian Police, 1879-1885," South Dakota History, Vol. 29, No. 3, Fall 1999, p. 194. The article reproduces this portrait and identifies Sword as the subsequent commander of the Pine Ridge Indian Police.
Condition:
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