Ceremony for Repatriation of Skeletal Remains to Blackfeet Indians
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PrintPipe passing ceremony to mark the transfer of skeletal remains to Blackfeet Indians outside the National Museum of Natural History. Many of the remains came from a Blackfeet cemetery by individuals collecting for the Army Medical Museum and were transferred to the Smithsonian Institution in 1898. With Ken Weatherwax, Gordon Belcourt, Mike Swims Under, Buster Yellow Kidney, Marvin Weatherwax, Tom Whitford, Curly Bear Wagner, and Harriet Skye.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-009, Image No. 88-16362
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Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana
Black-and-white negatives
SIA Acc. 11-009 [88-16362]
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