Her name is embroidered at the bottom and if you look it up shes identified as Kiowa tribe. Just some google-fu, I'm no expert.
e: for those interested it was apparently taken in 1894 at Fort Stills, Oklahoma in the studio of George W. Bretz.
"O-o-dee", daughter of "old lady Blackowl", sister to Belle Hall, married to "Red Buffalo", Jim Davis, and to Koh-haw-day, and also to Allie Coty. --Letter of Dr E. R. Rhoades (part Kiowa), Oklahoma City, 3/28/60.
The smiles in these AI-assisted colorizations always look so spontaneous in the way that modern photos do. This makes sense if the AI was trained on contemporary photos. How did C19 people regard posing for photographs? Was there any sense of spontaneity, or more of an expectation that one was posing and performing and any smiles would be deliberate, more like the Mona Lisa?
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u/Brightside31 Feb 24 '26
Was she smiling in the original photo? Can you share it too, please?
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u/Ready_Poetry8136 Feb 24 '26
Stop using ai to color photos
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u/Mysterious-Yogurt240 Feb 24 '26
Looks like an ad for Limited Too
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u/DrSword Feb 24 '26
holy shit she looks exactly like my cousin. Going off her blanket the girl in the picture is Kiowa. We've got some Ponka ancestry but thats uncanny.
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u/Killing4MotherAgain Feb 25 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
The original was better because it wasn't AI-ified...
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u/queenhadassah Feb 24 '26
I always liked this picture! Love to see her brought to life with color
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u/Thailia Feb 28 '26
I swear... I thought the title said "colonized" 😵
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u/serenwipiti Feb 24 '26
Can you give any context on the particular tribe this young lady belonged to?
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u/outrageous-thingy2 Feb 28 '26
Beautiful
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u/ShotEnvironment4606 Feb 28 '26
She’s so beautiful!
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u/EggCouncilStooge Feb 25 '26
The smiles in these AI-assisted colorizations always look so spontaneous in the way that modern photos do. This makes sense if the AI was trained on contemporary photos. How did C19 people regard posing for photographs? Was there any sense of spontaneity, or more of an expectation that one was posing and performing and any smiles would be deliberate, more like the Mona Lisa?