Charles DeFate as Indian Chief – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Charles DeFate as Indian Chief, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Charles DeFate as Indian Chief
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In this portrait, Charles DeFate is posed as an "Indian Chief," a role the title spells out and that a 1919 caption card records. The subject tag "Patent medicines" suggests a likely setting: traveling medicine shows of the early twentieth century often hired performers in costume to draw crowds and lend an air of frontier authority to their remedies. Pictures like this show how non-Native entertainers packaged Indianness as spectacle, an image that shaped popular ideas long after the shows had faded. The record is based on old, unverified caption data, so the exact circumstances of the sitting remain uncertain.
| Created / published | c1919 Dec. 3. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | J238461 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Indians--Misc.--1919; Patent medicines; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,036 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-137324 |
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