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[Washakie, Chief of Shoshones, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] – Historic Photograph Print

[Washakie, Chief of Shoshones, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], c1900. — historic photograph
[Washakie, Chief of Shoshones, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], c1900.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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A window into the past: [Washakie, Chief of Shoshones, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Washakie, Chief of Shoshones, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

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Few portraits of the period show a Native leader as directly as this head-and-shoulders study of Washakie, whom the record dates to about 1804 through 1900. The catalog describes it as a reproduction of an artwork, so it reflects how a painted likeness was copied and circulated in print at the time. Washakie led the Eastern Shoshone for decades and signed the Fort Bridger Treaty of 1868, which established a reservation in what is now Wyoming. Images like this one shaped how many non-Native viewers pictured western tribal leaders.

Created / publishedc1900.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortraits Reproductions.Photographic prints 1900.
NotesReproduction of art work. No. 98.
SubjectsWashakie,--ca. 1804-1900. Indians of North America--1900. Shoshoni Indians--1900. Tribal chiefs--1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,299 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-179002

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