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Crow Fair
Richard Throssel Native American
Not on view
By 1902, traditional dances and feasts were prohibited on the Crow reservation, and this image may record a group parading through a Crow Fair, an agricultural exposition that celebrated Native culture in a new context. Men show off their horses. On the left is an animal with a handprint on its shoulder, and in the center, a horse wears a bridle and attachment embroidered with Crow beadwork. Throssel photographed people in their own clothing, in contrast to many non-Native photographers of the period who often posed their subjects in studio settings or outdoors in romanticized scenes of earlier life and dress.
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