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Message:: [QUOTE="komokwa, post: 158360, member: 301"]Those are two very different costumes from very different places.Strange time for 1st nations in the late 1800's.....some good , some bad.Here r some thoughts.... 1. Plains Indian , half Americanized costume.The leggings and beaded mocs speak to me of Sioux , but the shirt and vest say Sioux on the RESERVE. 2. Those are Iroquois mocs, & what looks like a womans Iroquois headdress. The beaded buckskin jacket & pants say Great Lakes....or east of that, but the shirt with it's flags & bird again speak of the Iroquois style of whimsy design. The rifle with it's ring for mounted cavalry ...looks like a prop. That's one handsome man, but I can't say for sure he's native , although the Iroquois bred successfully with the white man well before this photo, and I know several who are as handsome as he is.That said many of these studio photo's were staged . The 1st pic....that does indeed look like a Plains Brave.[/QUOTE]