Saturday, June 3, 2023

A portrait of musician/composer Zitkala Sa, “Red Bird,” also known as Gertrude Simmons, by photographer Joseph T. Keiley, 1898.

 


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  1. Sorry but I don’t know who this is. She was certainly striking.

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    1. Zitkála-Šá, aka Red Bird -
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zitkala-Sa

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  2. Looks like actress Karina Lombard a bit

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  3. She has Elizabeth Warren's high cheekbones.

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  4. Attractive squaw…

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    1. Oh, really now, how can ub soooo politically incorrect!!!?LOL

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  5. A very attractive Lakota woman who appears to be in a lanquid state of mind.

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  6. Here is her husband.

    https://www.geni.com/people/Captain-Raymond-Talesfase-Bonnin/6000000009860194476

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  7. I read a bit about her. What an interesting woman. It's hard to be an original in the classical sense, but I think it's fair to say that she was a complete, original, beautiful woman.

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