Blackbird Holding Saddle - National Parks Gallery

LIBI_00012_07522; A black-and-white of Blackbird holding a saddle that his mother-in-law used in collecting spoils after Custer battle. The typewritten description reads, "Cheyenne Indian woman's saddle used by Blackbird's Mother-in-Law as she rode among the dead soldiers to get spoils of war. Originally in wooden frame covered by buffalo rawhide sewed with sinew thread. Blackbird was eleven years old in the Cheyenne camp at Custer’s battle in 1876. This relic obtained from him may 27, 1932.; print, photographic [mounted on card]; Courtesy of the National Park Service, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, LIBI_00012_07522, Thomas B. Marquis, "Blackbird Holding Saddle," 1932

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1932

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