2 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. CDV on cardstock mount featuring a seated portrait of Arikara Chief Rushing Bear (image ripped along horizontal crease to lower right, abrasion with surface loss to subject's lap, wear to edges and corners of image and mount). Uncredited, but possibly made in the early 1870s during a trip to Washington, DC. Verso bears penciled inscription reading, "1874 Son of the Star - Rushing Bear - Arikara North Dakota." Because his father was named The Star, Rushing Bear was sometimes referred to as Son-of-The-Star. He appears here wearing a bear claw necklace and feathered headdress, holding a pipe with otter bag in one hand and a tomahawk in the other.  

Rushing Bear served as leader of the society that protected his tribe, and in 1874, he was called by the Indian Commissioner to meet with officials in Washington, DC. Rushing Bear, together with Bull Head, Peter Beauchamp I, Bad Gun, Bald Eagle, and Shows-Fear-in-the-Face, agreed to scout for the military in trade for protection from the Sioux Indians.