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Crow Fair

Richard Throssel Native American

ca. 1910

Not on view

By 1902, traditional dances and feasts were prohibited on the Crow reservation, and this image may record a group parading through a Crow Fair, an agricultural exposition that celebrated Native culture in a new context. Men show off their horses. On the left is an animal with a handprint on its shoulder, and in the center, a horse wears a bridle and attachment embroidered with Crow beadwork. Throssel photographed people in their own clothing, in contrast to many non-Native photographers of the period who often posed their subjects in studio settings or outdoors in romanticized scenes of earlier life and dress.

Crow Fair, Richard Throssel (Native American, Cree (adopted Crow), 1882–1933), Gelatin silver print, Cree (adopted Crow) — Due to rights restrictions, this image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Title: Crow Fair

Artist: Richard Throssel (Native American, Cree (adopted Crow), 1882–1933)

Date: ca. 1910

Geography: United States, Washington

Culture: Cree (adopted Crow)

Medium: Gelatin silver print

Classification: Photographs

Credit Line: Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego (2003.003.046)

Accession Number: SL.7.2015.50.1

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