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Hoowanneka [or Little Elk], a Winnebago chief – Historic Reproduction

Hoowanneka [or Little Elk], a Winnebago chief, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique lithograph
Hoowanneka [or Little Elk], a Winnebago chief, [no date recorded on caption card]. Antique lithograph 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: Hoowanneka [or Little Elk], a Winnebago chief, preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Hoowanneka [or Little Elk], a Winnebago chief

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Hoowanneka, also recorded as Little Elk, is named here as a chief of the Winnebago, the people now known as the Ho-Chunk. The lithograph appeared in volume II of McKenny and Hall's *History of the Indian Tribes of North America*, a multivolume work published in the 1830s and 1840s that paired portrait images with short biographical notes. Many of its sitters were Native visitors to Washington, and their likenesses were usually painted from life and then reproduced as prints. The record gives no date for the original sitting, so when it was made cannot be stated with certainty.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : lithograph.
SubjectsIllus. in: McKenny and Hall, vol. II, p. 171. Reference copy may be in BIOG FILE. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: A/P/P Index; Indians of North America--Winnebago; BI (Indians) (2); Publ. Ind.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan981 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-144943

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