Reddit reviews Collecting Native America, 1870-1960

Her name is Frances Densmore. She was a revolutionary ethnomusicologist for the Bureau of American Ethnology (the Smithsonian's earliest anthropology department) in the last 1800s. This fella's name is Mountain Chief, and she made dozens of recording just like this one and kept close relationships with leading anthropologists of the day like A.L. Kroeber and Frank Hamilton Cushing. As for his leggings, the crosses aren't that unique. Do a quick Google search of "plains war shirt" or "blackfoot leggings" and you'll find crosses all over the place. Source