Interior Studio Portrait of Unidentified Omaha or Pawnee Indian

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In Folder: RG0724.PH Hyde, George E., 1882-1968

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Interior Studio Portrait of Unidentified Omaha or Pawnee Indian

RG0724.PH

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Title: Interior Studio Portrait of Unidentified Omaha or Pawnee Indian

Collection Code: RG0724.PH

Collection Name: Hyde, George E., 1882-1968

Photographer: Gunther, Carlin (Berlin, Germany)

Date: 1888

Description: Interior studio portrait of unidentified Omaha or Pawnee Indian. The caption on the back of the photograph is writing in German. The translations reads,"Scili (Skidi?). A very old photo made in Berlin of Indians (there was a whole troup) of an unknown tribe. The photo was identified by an old Sioux Warrior as "Scili" (Pawnee). The upper arm shows scars of teh bite of a grizzly bear. (The photo is possibly made by Carl Gunther, Berenstrasse 24, Berlin West). --Friedrich Weygold."According to note from George E. Hyde, the photograph was sent to him from Germany while he was writing his "Pawnee History." Hyde writes, "They seen to be Pawnees who were with Buffalo Bill's Wild West in 1888, when the show broke up in Germany and these were rumors of bad treatment of Indians. I cannot read the German writing on back of photos --Geroge E. Hyde, 1955"

Subjects: Pawnee Indians

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Medium: paper

Orig/Copy: Original

Print Size: 2.5" x 4"

Object ID: RG0724.PH0-000016

Photo Field 1: 99960

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Source (Temporal): 1880s

Format-Extent: 1 photograph

Format-Medium: photographic prints

Format-Medium: black-and-white photograph

Type: Image

Relation: original

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File Format: TIF

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