Frederick Weygold (June 13, 1870 in Saint Charles, Missouri – August 13, 1941 in Louisville, Kentucky) was an American painter, photographer and ethnographer, who has researched the life and culture of the North American Indians mainly examples of various Sioux tribes and artistically presented as scientific.
In 1909, Weygold went to the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations in South Dakota, where he obtained Native American artifacts for the Museum of Ethnology in Hamburg.
He also made a lot of photographs to reflect Native American life and culture.
Later he was able to use his ethnographic experience to illustrate two books by the Dakota author Charles Eastman and two others by James Willard Schultz for a German publisher.
[1] [2] During a long period, Native American artifacts were far more popular in Europe — where Weygold did much of his work — than in the United States.