Little Robe Southern Cheyenne Chief

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Title: Little Robe Southern Cheyenne Chief
Creator: Gurney, Jeremiah, 1812-1895, photographer.
Published/Created: [Washington, D.C.] : [Jeremiah Gurney], [1871]
Physical Description: 1 photograph : albumen print ; mount 16 x 10.5 cm (cabinet card format)
Notes: "Little Robe" variant personal names: Hah-ket-home-mah, Ski-o-mah, Tak-kee-o-mah.; "Cheyenne Indians" variant names: Suhtaio Indians, Tsitsistas Indians.; Half length studio portrait of Southern Cheyenne chief Little Robe wearing mixture of western and traditional clothing including U.S. military jacket, wool hair wraps, and German silver earrings and brooch.; Subject photographed while part of Cheyenne and Arapaho delegation to Washington, D.C., in 1871.; Original photograph likely produced by Jeremiah Gurney & Co. in Washington, D.C., in 1871. Image reprinted by William H. Jackson for comprehensive photographic record of Native Americans titled "Photographs of North American Indians" compiled by U.S. Department of the Interior Geographical Survey of the Territories under F. V. Hayden first published in 1877. This image is #118 in Jackson's "Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians".; Image used as part of exhibit curated by Charles F. Fish during the Second International Congress of Eugenics in New York City in 1921.; Label applied to verso: The Second International Congress of Eugenics Exhibit of Scientific Studies at the American Museum of Natural History Seventy-Seventh Street and Central Park West, New York City September 22 to October 22, 1921; Exhibit No.; Booth; Exhibit; Exhibited by - C.F. Fish; Address - So. Swansea; Disposition - Return Mass.; Title derived from inscribed caption.
Names and Subjects: Photographs shelf.; Richard Pohrt Jr. Collection of Native American Photography.; Algonquian Indians.; Cheyenne Indians.; Eugenics.; Indians of North America--Colorado.; Little Robe,--1828-1886--Portraits.; Clothing & dress--1870-1880.; Delegations--Cheyenne--Washington (D.C.)--1870-1880.; Tribal chiefs--Colorado--1870-1880.; Algonquian.; Cheyenne (North American people); Indigenous peoples--Colorado.; Fish, Charles Frederick,--1855-1940,--former owner.; Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.),--publisher.; Jackson, William Henry,--1843-1942,--photographer.
Genre: Albumen prints 1870-1880.; Cabinet photographs 1870-1880.; Portrait photographs 1870-1880.
Collection Title: Richard Pohrt Jr. Collection of Native American Photography
Collection Creator: Pohrt, Richard, Jr.
ID: 987
Barcode: A296185
Call Number: Photo Div Pohrt CAB Gur.001
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Repository: William L. Clements Library

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Collection: Richard Pohrt, Jr. Collection of Native American Photography
Image Size: 3621 x 5759
File Size: 684 KB
Record: 987
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