Henry Real Bird~1995

Black-and-white photograph of Henry Real Bird on horseback on a hilltop, waving one hand, with the Bighorn Mountains and forested valley spreading behind him.

Black-and-white close-up photograph of a champion rodeo belt buckle reading &quot;Champion Crow Fair 1971,&quot; with a bucking bronco rider engraved at center, worn on a tooled leather belt.

Black-and-white photograph, from behind, of a saddled horse with an ornate saddle blanket standing in an open field with distant hills.

Black-and-white photograph of a sandstone butte topped with pines under a night sky filled with long star trails, hay bales scattered in the foreground field.

Black-and-white photograph of five canvas tipis pitched in a grassy clearing lined by cottonwoods, hills rising behind.

Black-and-white photograph, extreme close-up, of three horses standing together, one resting its head over another’s neck in the shade of a tree.

Black-and-white photograph of a woman in a wide-brimmed hat holding up a folded sheet of paper covered in pictographic symbols -- animal tracks, moons, clouds -- reading it against an open field.

Black-and-white photograph of a man standing on a straight rural highway holding an open booklet, utility poles receding to the horizon behind him.

Black-and-white photograph of a man sitting cross-legged in the bed of a pickup truck, hands clasped, with sandstone buttes and a fenced pasture behind him.

Black-and-white photograph of a painted hide map laid on grass, showing Montana mountain ranges and rivers labeled by name with small mounted-rider figures and a compass rose.

Black-and-white photograph of a tipi’s canvas and smoke-flap poles rising against the sky, framed by cottonwood branches, with a stacked woodpile at its base.

Black-and-white photograph, a low-angle interior view looking up through the crossed lodgepoles at the top of two tipis.

Black-and-white portrait of a man in a feathered headdress and painted face sitting cross-legged inside a tipi on a striped blanket, holding a beaded object and a feather fan.

Black-and-white close-up photograph of a mounted bison head, horns and shaggy fur catching the light, tied with cloth strips and feathers to a central pole inside a ceremonial arbor.

Diptych: the interior corner of a canvas shelter with a bucket and stones near its low entrance, and a bonfire of split logs burning beside a water bucket at dusk.

Color close-up photograph of a large fan of mixed pheasant and hawk feathers bound with a beaded handle and trailing buckskin fringe, laid against a white background.

Black-and-white photograph, from above, of a row of pale, speckled feathers laid out in a neat curved line on windblown grass.

Black-and-white photograph of a man in ceremonial dress with a feather headdress and painted face, sitting cross-legged in front of a tipi holding a beaded pipe bag and feathered items.

Black-and-white photograph of a herd of horses running past a row of tipis, a rider in a feather headdress visible at the far left leading them across an open field.

Black-and-white photograph, silhouetted at dusk, of a tipi’s bundled smoke-flap poles crossing in front of a crescent moon.

Black-and-white photograph, from directly beneath, looking up at the radiating lodgepoles and canvas ceiling of a tipi, with an opening of bright sky at the smoke hole.

Black-and-white portrait of a man in a full eagle-feather headdress and fringed regalia, seated cross-legged in front of a tipi holding a beaded pipe bag and eagle-wing fan, face marked with paint.

Black-and-white photograph, seen through gaps in an overhead lattice of branches, of a row of people wrapped in cloth standing beneath a brush-roofed ceremonial arbor.

Black-and-white close-up photograph of a mounted bison head lashed with rope and hung with feathers against a central ceremonial pole, hills and fence visible behind.

Two black-and-white photographs: heated stones glowing inside a low canvas-covered sweat lodge frame, and a bonfire of stacked wood blazing beside a water bucket at dusk.

Black-and-white photograph of a woman crouched at the edge of a stream, washing or gathering something from the water, dense brush lining the bank.

Black-and-white photograph, seen through overhead branches, of eight people standing beneath a brush arbor holding vertical poles, most bare-chested and wrapped in cloth for a ceremony.

Black-and-white close-up photograph of a mounted bison head bound to a pole with rope, eagle feathers hanging from its horns, fenced hillside visible in the background.

Black-and-white portrait of a man in a full eagle-feather headdress with face paint, seated cross-legged inside a tipi on a striped blanket, holding a small beaded pouch.

Black-and-white close-up photograph of two hands gripping a coiled rope and saddle horn, one hand wearing a ring, sunlit field visible behind.

Black-and-white photograph of a man in a light-colored hat and jeans, smiling atop a saddled horse in an open pasture with hills behind.

Black-and-white photograph, from behind, of a woman in a straw hat painting a wavy black line onto a large white surface with a stick, a paint can in her other hand.

Black-and-white photograph of a man in a cowboy hat standing beside a white horse painted with a black handprint and wavy line on its flank, tipis lining the water’s edge behind them.

Black-and-white close-up photograph of a black handprint painted on the hindquarters of a white horse, tipis visible blurred in the background.