Student information card of Anna Laura (Pretty Woman), a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 6, 1879 and departed on June 23, 1880.
Pretty Woman


Student information card of Anna Laura (Pretty Woman), a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 6, 1879 and departed on June 23, 1880.

Portrait of Samuel High Bear, Herbert (Yellow Sack), Maurice (Yellow Hair), and Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) posed on the bandstand on the school grounds.
![Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) [version 1], c.1880 Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) [version 1], c.1880](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_121701a.jpg?itok=eM7GEWDw)
Studio portrait of Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) wearing native dress.
There is a caption written by Mrs. Richard Henry Pratt: "She was given my name (Anna Laura) by her own request. Grand daughter of Spotted Tail, Chief, Sioux."
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: 12-17-01, 12-17-01A, and PA-CH1-…
![Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) [version 2], c.1880 Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) [version 2], c.1880](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/NAA_73594.jpg?itok=ASSkFUHz)
Studio portrait of Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) wearing native dress.
Note: This is an example of Choate taking a photograph of another photograph. Previous cataloging says she is wearing an elk-tooth dress, blanket, and dentalium shell earrings.