Walking Buffalo (Tataga Mani)

Black-and-white photograph of a pastel on paper portrait of Walking Buffalo (Tataga Mani), a Stoney Indian from Morley, Alberta. According to "History in their blood", a book by Hugh Dempsey, he was born in 1871 and christened George McLean. He passed away in 1967 at the age of ninety-six....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: de Grandmaison, Nicholas, 1892-1978
Other Authors: University of Lethbridge Library
Format: Still Image
Language:unknown
Published: Digitized by University of Lethbridge Library 1950
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Alberta > Morley > Portraits
Assiniboine Indians > Alberta > Morley > Portraits
Hats
Men
Pastels (Visual works)
Photographic prints
Portraits
Walking Buffalo
1871-1967
Tataga Mani
McLean
George
Alta
Indian
Morley
assiniboine
stoney
Online Access:http://digitallibrary.uleth.ca/cdm/ref/collection/grandmaison/id/843
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Summary:Black-and-white photograph of a pastel on paper portrait of Walking Buffalo (Tataga Mani), a Stoney Indian from Morley, Alberta. According to "History in their blood", a book by Hugh Dempsey, he was born in 1871 and christened George McLean. He passed away in 1967 at the age of ninety-six. In the portrait, he is wearing a headdress made from the hide and horns of a bison. He is wearing several necklaces. A short necklace is made of bear claws and a shell. Several longer necklaces are made of beads.

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