portrait of Crow King in US Major's army jacket with bone hairpipe breastplate, with ink identification below image, "Kangi Ya-ta-pi." D.F. Barry's imprint on mount verso, with period notation, which reads, "Crow King / The Chief who surrendered his band to Maj. Brotherton at Fort Buford in July 1881 and ? the pack of the S.B. Rebellion."

Crow King was a prominent Hunkpapa Lakota warrior and close ally of Sitting Bull. During the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, he led a band of approximately eighty warriors in an attack from the south, contributing to the encirclement and destruction of Custer’s 7th Cavalry.

Following the campaign, Crow King fled with Sitting Bull’s band to Canada, where increasing hardship and declining resources eventually forced their return. In 1881, he surrendered at Fort Buford in Dakota Territory, where, under Major D. H. Brotherton, he and his followers laid down their arms and were transferred to the Standing Rock Agency.