“Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Warriors”

January 31, 2013

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“Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Warriors: Photographs by Gertrude Käsebier,” In 1898, inspired by a grand parade of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West troupe en route to New York City’s Madison Square Garden, photographer Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934) began a project to photograph Sioux Indians traveling with the show. View approximately 60 original platinum and gum-bichromate photographs printed from original glass negatives, pictograph drawings made by the Sioux Indians while in the studio, historic camera and studio equipment, Nov. 17-Feb. 9, 2013. Also: “Plateau Portraits: The Photographs of Richard Lewis,” showcases selections from the MAC’s Richard Lewis collection of portrait photography. Plateau Portraits focuses individuals from Plateau tribes taken during the 1920s and 1930s. Hours are Wednesdays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and open until 8 p.m. on the first and second Friday.

Where:

Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, 2316 W. First Ave., Spokane, WA

City:

Spokane

Neighborhood:

Browne's Addition neighborhood, Downtown

Cost:

$7/adults, $5/seniors and students with ID, free/age 5 and younger

Phone:

(509) 456-3931

Email:

rebecca.bishop@northmuseum.org

Website:

http://www.northwestmuseum.org/

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