[George E. Trager, photographer]. Birds Eeye [sic] View of Battle Field at Wounded Knee S.D. Albumen photograph. Chadron, Nebraska: Northwestern Photographic Co., 1 January 1891. Title and copyright statement in negative. Photographer's advertisement printed to mount verso. 

A grim photograph of corpses of victims of the Wounded Knee Massacre. The body of one of the Native Americans is at the foreground, with dozens more visible across the snow-covered plain. Four men are visible in the background with horses and carts, almost certainly civilians hired by the US military to bury the dead.

During the botched attempt by the 7th U.S. Cavalry to disarm Lakota at Wounded Knee, over 250 Lakota were massacred on the morning of 29 December 1890. A three-day blizzard delayed the collection and burial of the dead.

George Trager of nearby Chadron, Nebraska, was the first photographer to arrive and document the aftermath, capturing several photographs in January 1891. 

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