INDIAN SWORDS
FIG. 36 (above): Frontal portrait of an unknown Blackfoot man wearing a
beaded shirt and holding a sword, by Alexander J. Ross, Calgary, Alberta,
c. 1887.
Mounted photo. 21.6 x 12.7 cm.
Glenbow Museum, inv. NA-1906-4.
The hilt of the subject’s British Pattern 1821 light cavalry saber is festooned with ermine tails and
other adornments.
123
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Hughes, Robert, 1977. “The Art of the Japanese Sword.” Horizon 19(2):50–
61.
Jackson, William H., 1877. Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North
American Indians. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.
Lanman, Charles (ed.), 1872. The Japanese in America. New York: University
Publishing Company.
Lewis, James Otto, 1835. The Aboriginal Port Folio, or, a Collection of
Portraits of the Most Celebrated Chiefs of the North American Indians.
Philadelphia: J. O. Lewis; Lithographed by Lehman & Duval.
Markantes, Charles G., 2004. “The President Grant Peace Medal.” Research
Review: The Journal of the Little Big Horn Associates 18(1) (winter).
McClatchie, Thomas R. H., 1873. “The Sword of Japan.” Transactions of the
Asiatic Society of Japan 3: 50–56.
McKenney, Thomas L., and James Hall, 1836–1844. History of the Indian
tribes of North America, with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the
principal chiefs: Embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits, from
the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington. 3 volumes.
Philadelphia: E. C. Biddle.
Myers, Thomas P., 1987. “An Examination of Central Plains Moccasins:
Evidence of Adaptation to a Reservation Economy.” Plains Anthropologist
32(115): 29–41.
Neihardt, John G., 1932. Black Elk Speaks. New York: William Morrow.
Pontsioen, Robert, 2018. “The Alexander Graham Bell Collection of Japanese
Masks at the Smithsonian.” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 17(2):
179–198 (autumn).
Prucha, Francis P., 1971. Indian Peace Medals in American History. Madison,
Wisconsin: State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Ricky, Donald B., 1998. Encyclopedia of Iowa Indians. Vol. 1: Tribes, Nations,
and People of the Woodland Areas. St. Clair Shores, Michigan: Somerset
Publishers.
Robinson, Doane, 1904. “Historical Sketch of South Dakota.” Published as
Part I, X, within Vol. 2 of: South Dakota Historical Collections. (23 volumes,
published 1902–1947.) Pierre, South Dakota: South Dakota State Historical
Society.
Scherer, Joanna C., 2014. “Artifact Identification Using Historical Photographs:
The Case of Red Cloud’s Manikin.” Visual Anthropology 27:217–247.
Somerset Publishers, 2000. Encyclopedia of South Dakota Indians: Tribes,
Nations, Treaties of the Plains and West. St. Clair Shores, MI: Somerset
Publishers.
Stamm, Richard, and Paula Fleming, 2010. “The Castle Stereos: Views of
Exhibits in the Smithsonian Institution.” Stereo World 35(5): 12–19, 35.
Stocken, Canon H. W. Gibbon, 1976. Among the Blackfoot and Sarcee.
Calgary, Alberta: Glenbow Alberta Institute.
Swale, Alistair, 1998. “America 15 January–6 August 1872.” In: Ian Nish (ed.),
The Iwakura Mission in America and Europe: A New Assessment. Surrey,
UK: Japan Library (Curzon Press, Ltd).
Takarabe, Kae, 2000. “Samurai at the Smithsonian: First Japanese Visitors to a
Western-Style Museum in the U.S.” Pp. 161–182 in: Michael T. Ghiselin and
Alan E. Leviton (eds.), Cultures and Institutions of Natural History: Essays in
the History and Philosophy of Science. San Francisco: California Academy
of Science.
Tamio, Tsuchiko, 2004. “The Japanese Sword after the Meiji Restoration and
the Meaning of Yasukuni-To.” In: Tom Kishida (ed.), The Yasukuni Swords:
Rare Weapons of Japan, 1933–1945. Trans. Tokyo: Kodansha International.
Taylor, Paul Michael, 1995. Introduction (to) Artifacts of Diplomacy:
Smithsonian Collections from Commodore Matthew Perry’s Japan
Expedition (1853–1854), by Chang-su Houchins. (Pp. iv–v.) Washington,
D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Wilson, R. L., 2004 orig. 1995. Steel Canvas: The Art of American Arms.
Edison, NJ: Chartwell Books.
Wilson, Robert, 2014. Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation. New York:
Bloomsbury.
Woodward, Arthur, 1928. “The ‘Long Knives.’” Indian Notes 5(1):64–79.