Portrait of O-o-be, a Kiowa girl wearing a dress decorated with elk teeth. Her name is embroidered in the textile next to her. Photographed in 1895. Smithsonian Museum.

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This rare photograph shows a young indigenous woman smiling at the viewer. The image was taken at George W. Bretz’s studio in Fort Sill, Oklahoma(1894)

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Smiling Kiowa girl, taken at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in 1895. I think I've positive identified her as Nannie “Muskogee” Tahloweah. Details below.

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Lotta Atsye, the chief’s daughter of the Laguna Pueblo, 1904.

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Native American woman wearing a valuable Elk tooth dress, possibly 1890s

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Chief's Daughter, Loti-Kee-Yah-Tede, New Mexico, 1905.

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Apsaroke (Crow) Native American Mom & Baby, Montana, 1907.

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Since people are posting pictures of their grandparents, here's my grandmother in 1908.

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Navajo girl wearing silver and turquoise Squash Blossom jewelry, 1950.

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Portrait of Mooragootch, a Shoshone warrior. Photographed between 1884-85

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Ah-Weh-Eyu (Pretty Flower) of the Seneca Nation, 1908. (Photo by J.L. Blessing, published by The Blessing Studio, Salamanca, New York)

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Some photos of people smiling and having fun during the Victorian Era (late 1800s)

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Luzon woman, 1875