This
picture is from a group photo that shows the prisoners
who joined Cody's Wild West Show on March 30, 1891 (left
Kicking Bear, right Short Bull).
1891
group photo by Gus Trager
(from left to right: Kicking Bear, Young-Man-Afraid-Of-His-Horses,
Standing Bear)
The two photos above were made in 1896.
Here
is Kicking Bear with bow, taken by D.F. Barry, I'm guessing
in the early 90s:
Second
up is the 1893 Wild West Show programme illustration of
Kicking Bear:
Finally,
here's a closer view of the head from that illustration:
Kicking
Bear sculpted in 1892 by Carl Rohl Smith (1848-1900) and
exhibited at the Columbian Exposition in 1893; I'm assuming
this was from life. —
Grahame Wood
Kicking
Bear from 1899:
This
unidentified photo from the Marquette University could
be Kicking Bear in his later years.
— Dietmar Schulte-Möhring
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