2 stereoviews on cardstock mounts showing Ute Chief Honkapkna, or Honko, including: A flat-mount stereoview of Honko wearing a kepi and military-style coat, identified in lower margin. Uncredited. -- Stereoview of Honko with fur wrapped around his long braids. Verso with imprint of "John P. Lower, Sportsmen's Depot, Denver, Colorado." Manuscript identifications on mount recto and verso.

Note that in each photograph, Honko is shown wearing the Abraham Lincoln peace medal. Research indicates that Honko was supposedly wearing the medal when he was shot during a fight near Cheyenne Welles. The medal stopped the bullet, but in stead of seeing the medal as saving his life, Honko saw it as being responsible for his being shot. As a result, he reportedly sold the medal in disgust in the 1870s because its supposed supernatural powers had not fully protected him from harm. An entry on the Numismatic Bibliomania Society website indicates that John P. Lower, the Colorado businessman listed on the back of one of the stereoviews, owned the medal at one time. The medal, with the bullet still embedded in it, is currently held at the American Numismatic Society.

Information obtained from American-Tribes.com and The E-Sylum Electronic Publication of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society.