1950s 1960s Portrait Photograph Native American Performer Princess White Buffalo

Description

Vintage 1950s or early 1960s black and white portrait photograph of Native American performer Princess White Buffalo.
Dimensions: Height 10" x Width 8".
Weight: 10 grams.
Condition: Light wear to image. Creases to three of four corners. Two tiny tears along the left edge of paper.
From a 1960s news article printed in the Harrisonburg Daily on January 30, 1965:
"Indian Princess White Buffalo, her husband Little Bear, and their daughter Owl Eyes gave a lecture and performed Indian dances at Triplett elementary school this week. Princess White Buffalo wears a 100-year-old dress made of 15 pounds of Elk skins. She gave a lecture demonstration of Plains Indian culture. Claiming to be of the Mandan tribe in North Dakota she said there were 309 different Indian languages and 17 different tribes. The Princess and her family said that they have never lived on a reservation and that they enjoy all the modern conveniences of the American people including dress. She said that they hunt their meat in the supermarkets and their horses are under the hood of their car. However, they do own a horse ranch in Washington state she said. Little Bear said each of the 109 Golden Eagle feathers in his head piece were Given to him for outstanding performance and deeds. The Law does not allow the Golden Eagle to be killed so in order to obtain the feathers the eagles are caught and two feathers, one from each side of the eagle, are pulled so as not to unbalance the bird. Little Bear played a skin drum while his seventeen year-old daughter, Owl Eyes, did a horse dance and hoop dance."