Wahreo, a Chief among the Navajoes, New Mexico. – Vintage Print
![Wahreo, a Chief among the Navajoes, New Mexico., [United States], 1873. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5e/5e4a2b5d388d-L.webp)
(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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Wahreo, a Chief among the Navajoes, New Mexico. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Wahreo, a Chief among the Navajoes, New Mexico.
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Wahreo was photographed as a chief of the Navajo, and this stereograph is one of the Indian Series made during the 1871 Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, led by Lieutenant George M. Wheeler of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Wheeler's survey mapped much of the Southwest, and its expedition photographers recorded Native people alongside the terrain they surveyed. Because the card is a stereograph, it was meant to be viewed through a stereoscope, which gave the sitter a three-dimensional presence that was popular in parlors of the 1870s.
| Created / published | [United States], 1873. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, albumen. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1870-1880.Albumen prints 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Original negative number: 75. Title from item. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1871; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. Part of: Indian Series. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,242 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-113625 |
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