THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
NEW YORK, U. S. A.
PRAIRIE CHIEF IN WAR BONNET
(Cheyenne-Arapaho)
The Cheyenne Indians are interesting because of their
migration from Minnesota to Colorado, a gradual drift
southward for two centuries or more. When first observed
in North Dakota, they were living in villages of earth-lodges
similar to those of the Hidatsa. A few years later they
were hunting buffalo with Plains Indians near the Black
Hills. From that time on they lived in tipis and dressed
and otherwise conducted themselves like typical Plains
Indians.
From the Rodman Wanamaker collection
