Iron Breast in full combat regalla

Here is a colorized 1900 photo of Iron Breast, a Piegan tribal Indian chief from the Algonquian speaking  regions of Northern America (Canada).

John Hollow Horn Bear, 1898

After some time, going back to colorizing what deserves to be colorized can be a rewarding experience. I mean something that was meant to be colorful but deprived of the pageantry thanks to the tyranny of a pioneering imaging technology . These are the American natives. Nothing as glamorous as colorizing portrait beauties of vintage cinema, but the various colorizing options are much wider in this genre. I would have loved colorizing Philippine ethnic tribes taken at the turn of the century. Unfortunately, there are so few, and those few failed to capture the details that can make digital colorizing a pleasure.

Below is a certain John Hollow Horn Bear, a young Sioux Indian regally photographed taken 1898 from the Digital Public Library of America section of the New York Public Library Digital Collections and downloaded from the MIRIAM AND IRA D. WALLACH DIVISION OF ART, PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS: PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION. Other than that, not much else in known about the subject. On the other hand, there was a well known Hallow Horn Bear (1850 - 1913) also a Sioux, and whose short bio can be found in wikipedia.

The details have been nicely captured and preserved all this time. I consider this a work in progress as there are still a few items left uncolored. Perhaps, it can stand as is, but I may have a better disposition to some absent colors in the future.

Colorized Native America Indian Chief Porcupine

The state of vintage photos of Philippine tribes is just deplorable. There is not much you can find online. And about the only ones worth colorizing are actually in the US Library of Congress. How about that? In trying to find one, I stumbled again on a large vintage scan (2200 pixels) of an American Indian who went by the name of Porcupine (ends not as pine as in pine cone, but peenee as in itsy bitsy teeny weenie) from the US Library of Congress.  Colorized in two flavours.

Colorized_American Native Indian Chief Flying Hawk, Čhetáŋ Kiŋyáŋ of the Oglala Lakota Triben (circa 1900s)

My colorized take on the subject.   As guesswork based on a little research online, there are several color options on the wardrobe but basic is the skin color. of the what is called the red race  The original vintage below has been well preserved and though scanned at medium resolution, provides a good enough detail for colorization.