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Black Eagle, Great Plains, United States, 1900s

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Black Eagle, an Assiniboin Indian elder, wraps himself in a bison pelt.

(Photograph from the National Geographic book Edward S. Curtis: Coming to Light, 2001)
Photograph by Edward S. Curtis

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