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Blood Indians, Alberta, Canada, 1986

Photograph by Sam Abell

Chieftains of the Kainai, or Blood, Indian tribe wear elaborate headdresses during a ceremony in Alberta, Canada. The Blood are one of three tribes that make up the Blackfoot, a confederacy of Algonquian-speaking peoples.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "C.M. Russell, Cowboy Artist," January 1986, National Geographic magazine)