Glass Lantern Slides Part One: Tipis

Hand colored glass slides by Walter McClintock.
From the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.


Thunder Tipi


Thunder Tipi of Brings Down The Sun


Rainbow Tipi of Head Carrier


Otter Tipi


Crow Tipi


Blue Tipi or Home of the Thunder


Black Buffalo Tipi

"Pittsburgh native Walter McClintock graduated from Yale in 1891. In 1896 he traveled west as a photographer for a federal commission investigating national forests. McClintock became friends with the expedition’s Blackfoot Indian scout, William Jackson or Siksikakoan. When the commission completed its field work, Jackson introduced McClintock to the Blackfoot community of northwestern Montana. Over the next twenty years, supported by the Blackfoot elder Mad Wolf, McClintock made several thousand photographs of the Blackfoot, their homelands, their material culture, and their ceremonies."