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Cabinet Card - Studio portrait of No Neck holdin

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Cabinet Card - Studio portrait of No Neck holdin
<B>Cabinet Card - Studio portrait of Chief No Neck holding an effigy pipe</B></I><BR>Circa 1893<BR>Length 6 1/2 in. Width 4 1/4 in.<BR><BR>He is standing, wearing an eagle feather bonnet with trailer, a bone hairpipe breastplate, leggings with beaded strips, moccasins, and a wool blanket with a beaded strip. He is holding a pipe and stem and a fully beaded tobacco bag. Note the word "WILD" and the two American flags visible on the beaded blanket strip. No Neck traveled for many seasons with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. He appeared in "The Indian Wars" filmed by Buffalo Bill on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1913. Photograph by George E. Spencer, Fort Sheridan (Illinois) bearing his studio imprint on the front of the card. Very good condition and great tone, note small tack holes at top and bottom. Reverse side is blank.<BR>Fort Sheridan is located on the far north side of Chicago overlooking Lake Michigan. It was established in 1887 in response to the famous Haymarket Square Riot of 1886. Concern over the need for a military garrison led the Commercial Club of Chicago to donate land to the federal government for this purpose.<BR>Following the Ghost Dance "Outbreak" and the Wounded Knee Massacre (December 19, 1890) on the Pine Ridge Reservation, General Nelson Miles took 30 Sioux Indians identified as "ringleaders" back to his headquarters at Fort Sheridan where they were imprisoned. Preeminent in this group were Short Bull and Kicking Bear. A little more than a year previous, Short Bull had traveled to Nevada to meet Wovoka, the Paiute prophet, and learn about his vision. Kicking Bear was part of a subsequent Sioux delegation that traveled to the western agencies to better understand the new messiah and his Ghost Dance movement. Strange as it seems, Buffalo Bill Cody was allowed to recruit from this group for his upcoming show season. Twenty-three of the prisoners, joined by an ad