Native American Man Wearing a Bear Claw Necklace

LIBI_00019_00394; This item is an original sepia toned albumen photograph of Little Brave, an Arikara scout, wearing a bear claw necklace. The photograph is 5 1/8 x 7 1/4" (8 x 10" mounted) and was possibly produced by W.S. Soule. On the front, a handwritten caption in pencil reads, "Washita period/Fore bear-claws necklace [illegible word]."Photograph reprinted in "The Custer Album" by Lawrence A. Frost, page 94.Image scanned January 2010.Note: "Pkg 6 Box 3" handwritten on the verso.; Print, Photographic [Mounted on Card]; Courtesy of the National Park Service, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, LIBI_00019_00394, Unknown Photographer, "Native American Man Wearing a Bear Claw Necklace," circa 1868