15 October 2014

Blackfoot glass lantern slides

Camp in October


In 1896 Pittsburgh native Walter McClintock traveled west as a photographer for a federal commission investigating national forests.

He became friends with the expedition's Blackfoot Indian scout, William Jackson or Siksikakoan.

When the commission completed its field work, Siksikakoan introduced the photographer to the Blackfoot community of northwestern Montana.

Over the next 20 years, Walter McClintock made several thousand photographs of the Blackfoot.


 Hunting camp at sunrise



 Mountain camp on Cutbank headwaters of the Missouri



 Onesta at tripod near tipi



 Overlooking the camp



 Prairie with flowers



 Tipi in forest



 Tipi in snow



 Trees in Blackfoot country



 Two Indians with dog in front of tipi on snowy prairie



 Two tipis



Yellow Bird (Otachkuipisan) watching the horse herd


Or let's see a different selection @ retronaut (and let's say thank you for letting me know these wonderful glass lantern slide photographs).

And one hundred @ flickr (through a truly beautiful mosaic thumbnail palette composition).