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Lot 259
Sale 6425 - American Historical Ephemera and Early Photography, including The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography
Part I - Lots 1-222
Oct 23, 2025
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Part II - Lots 223-376
Oct 24, 2025
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[JACKSON, William Henry (1843-1942), photographer]. Boudoir card of Omaha Chief Standing Hawk and his wife. Ca 1868.
Boudoir photograph on cardstock mount of Standing Hawk with his wife, Mi-Ho-Ga, unmarked but by William Henry Jackson, ca 1868, with handwritten inscription on verso, "Gre-dthe-nuzhe. Standing Hawk and Squaw / Omaha Chief / the oldest chief in the tribe." With pasted label on verso from the "Second International Congress of Eugenics Exhibit of Scientific Studies," held at the American Museum of Natural History in the fall of 1921, with an ownership record of C.F. Fish of South Swansea, Massachusetts.
In cataloging this negative, Jackson noted that Standing Hawk was the oldest chief in the tribe whose words always commanded attention.
Provenance: Cowan's, American History, 9 December 2010, Lot 408.
The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography