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Leather album page with the photograph titled, 'Secrets of the Night.' it is a bronze of a Shoshone Indian with the remark, "This Indian has been waiting a long time before his fire on a mountain top for a message from the shadow world or sand hills. The owl which is the ghost bird, or messenger from the other world, has finally come to him and is whispering its secrets of the night."

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Title(s): 
Secrets of the Night
Creator(s): 
Charles Marion Russell (Artist)
George D. Sack (Author)
Culture: 
American
Date: 
1926
Materials/Techniques: 
gelatin silver process
Classification: 
Photographs
Object Type: 
Silver Gelatin Print
Credit Line: 
Gilcrease Museum/The University of Tulsa
Accession No: 
TU2009.39.8387.37
Previous Number(s): 
E.427; 45743; E.427 (Colorado Springs number)
Department: 
Archive
Collection: 
Charles M. Russell Research Collection (Britzman)
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