Cabinet card composite image featuring 19 vignetted bust portaits of chiefs, each numbered. (Heavy soiling, spotting, wear throughout, with clipped bottom corners.) Verso with signed inscription from Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt: "For Man on the Cloud from his friend R.H. Pratt." Verso also bears printed Choate label listing the names of the 19 pictured chiefs. -- Cabinet card composite image featuring 19 bust portraits of chiefs in collage form, each numbered, with text above reading "Noted Indian Chiefs." (Heavy toning, spotting, soiling throughout, with loss to mount corners.) Mount recto printed "Red Skins." Verso inscribed illegibly above and below Choate's printed list of names of chiefs. -- Cabinet card composite image featuring 19 bust portraits of chiefs in collage form, each numbered, with text above reading, "Noted Indian Chiefs." (light toning, light soiling, light wear to edges and corners.) Framed to 11 5/8 x 13 7/8 in., not examined out of the frame. Mount recto bears Choate's Carlisle, PA imprint. -- Together, 3 cabinet card composite images featuring 19 chiefs. 

Pictured chiefs include Sioux Chiefs Spotted Tail (1), Iron Wing (2), American Horse (3), and Red Shirt (4); Ponca Chiefs White Eagle (5) and Standing Buffalo (6); Mandan Chief Poor Wolf (7); Arickaree Chief Son of the Star (8); Apache Chief White Man (9); Kiowa Chief Stumbling Bear (10); Wichita Chief Tso-de-ar-ko (11); Cheyenne Chiefs Big Horse (12), Bob Tail (Horse) (13), Man-on-the-Cloud (14), and Mad Wolf (15); Arapaho Chiefs Little Raven (16), Yellow Bear (17), and Left Hand (18); and Ute Chief Ouray (19).

John N. Choate (1848-1902) began a long photographic career at Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1879 when the famous Carlisle Indian Industrial School was founded. Photographs like this one were produced to gain support for the school, suggesting that the chiefs featured supported the institution and its aims. Superintendent of the school, Richard Henry Pratt, explained his philosophy of assimilation in an 1892 speech to the National Conference of Charities and Correction, in which he uttered the infamous phrase, "Kill the Indian in him, and save the man."