Dust Maker


 Pictured above are Monsheeda (Dust Maker), and his wife Mehunga (Standing Buffalo). They are two Ponca Native Americans posing for a wedding photo which was taken around 1900. The photo is special because the two are smiling, a sight rarely seen in old photos. Since I am away from home I won't be able to make a post today, but I will repost some short info I wrote a couple of months ago regarding why people don't smile in old photos.

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People smiling is almost never seen in vintage pictures (especially of the 19th century), since it took a long time to take a photo and people couldn't hold a natural smile for that long. Another factor is that most people and especially Native Americans (due to their way of life) were largely alien to such technology, and were thus afraid of it.

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