Showing posts with label 1891. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1891. Show all posts

Friday

OX Teams in Sturgis


A photograph of the Ox Teams resting in the main street of Sturgis, Dakota Territory. 
The photograph was taken by John C.Grabill and is dated to between 1887 to 1892.

You can see the line of oxen and then the wagons.
From Library of Congress Prints and Photographs.

An ox wagon was used to transport goods. It was a wooden wagon with four iron covered wheels, pulled by teams of oxen, that were harnessed to the wagon in pairs. Most of the wagon was covered in canvas in a high arch to protect the goods.

Thursday

Lakota Indians

Four Lakota women standing, three holding infants in cradleboards, and a Lakota man on horseback, in front of a tipi.

Believe it or not, when this photo was taken in 1891 it was named by the studio who took it - 'A pretty group at an Indian tent.'  A pretty group!?! Did they look at their faces? They may be pretty but they are not happy. They are on the Indian Reservation at Pine Ridge.

More info on famous Lakota natives:
Touch the Clouds
Taken by James H Hamilton at the Spotted Tail Agency,
Nebraska, in the fall of 1877 Courtesy National Archives

 
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