Total Number Of Pages: 1
Source: Scanned from the original photograph which is 10 inches in width and 8 inches in height.
Language: English
Coverage: Unknown
Creators:
Red Thunder Cloud [Cromwell Ashbie Hawkins West]
Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions
Description: The reverse reads:
"I took this striking photo of Ethel Butler and son, Robert while doing field work in ethnology for the Heye Foundation, Museum Of The American Indian in New York City, while amonth the Montauks in 1942.
Ethel Butler was a conservative Indian who passed on to her son her knowledge of Montauk history. In this photo, Robert was nine years old and today he enjoys the distinction of being one of the finest Indian dancers in the eastern United States.
Ethel Butler was the daughter of Capt. Sam Butler, a New England Indian and Olive Fowler Butler, a Montauk. Her brothers Charles and John Joe appear in Photos 7 and 20. Her sister Mary appears in Photo 11.
The men of the Butler family were easilty distinguished by their shoulder length hair and all of the Butler women were able to sit on their tresses.
In 1942, Ethel Butler and her brothers Charles and George collaborated with Dr. Frank G. Speck, his students and myself while we were conducting ethnological research among them."
