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Iron Tail was one of the most famous Native American celebrities of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a popular subject for professional photographers who circulated his image across the continents. Iron Tail is notable in American history for his distinctive profile on the Buffalo nickel or Indian Head nickel of 1913 to 1938.
This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Bison_skull_pile.jpg licensed with PD-US 2011-02-09T23:51:10Z Kaldari 5689x4448 (2473795 Bytes) {{Information |Description=Photograph from the mid-1870s of a pile of [[w:American bison|American bison]] skulls waiting to be ground for fertilizer.
The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek βουκέφαλος bouképhalos, ' bullheaded ', from boûs ' bull ', and kephalḗ, ' head ', a reference to the oddly bulbous head shape of the species. The species name albeola is a diminutive of Latin albus meaning ' white '. [6]
In English usage, the term buffalo was used to refer to the American mammal as early as 1625. [18] The word bison was applied in the 1690s. [19] Buffalo was applied to the American bison by Samuel de Champlain as the French word buffles in 1616 (published 1619), after seeing skins and a drawing.
Chief John Big Tree (born Isaac Johnny John, June 2, 1877 – July 6, 1967) was a member of the Seneca Nation and an actor who appeared in 59 films between 1915 and 1950. He was born in Buffalo, New York and died in Onondaga Indian Reservation, New York.
Skull of an African buffalo. The African buffalo is a very robust species. Its shoulder height can range from 1.0 to 1.7 m (3.3 to 5.6 ft) and its head-and-body length can range from 1.7 to 3.4 m (5.6 to 11.2 ft).
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