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Chief Tibishko-Biness/Like A Bird Portrait

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Description: 

Man (Like a Bird) in part costume. Chippewa. Handwritten in white ink on front of print: 1077

People: 
Chief Tibishko-Biness, Like A Bird
Location Description: 

Red Lake, Minnesota

Protocol: 
Ziibiwing Center Public Access
Community: 
Ziibiwing Center
Category: 
Photos of Anishinabek
Tribe(s): 
Collections: 
Minnesota Anishinaabe
Original Date: 
1874
Creator: 
Bell, Charles Milton
Source: 
Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of the American Indian
Publisher: 
Ziibiwing Center
Identifier: 
N34779
Type: 
negitive
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Description: 

Seated studio portrait of Chief Tibishko-Biness or Like A Bird, wearing a white shirt and dark European jacket, with his lower body wrapped in a dark striped blanket; he has four feathers in his hair, and hoop earrings, and holds a sword and beaded(?) bag in his lap. May be a member of an 1874 Delegation.

People: 
Chief Tibishko-Biness, Like A Bird
Location Description: 

Red Lake, Minnesota

Title: 
1077
Protocol: 
National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Public Access
Community: 
National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)
Category: 
Photos of Anishinabek
Tribe(s): 
Collections: 
Minnesota Anishinaabe
Original Date: 
1874
Creator: 
Bell, Charles Milton
Rights: 
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish or broadbast materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiarchives@si.edu.
Source: 
Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of the American Indian
Publisher: 
National Museum of the American Indian
Identifier: 
N34779
Type: 
negitive