Ponka chief, N.A. – Antique Wall Art
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(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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This antique lithograph of Ponka chief, N.A. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Ponka chief, N.A.
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Numbered 8 in a series of fifty, this small chromolithograph shows a Ponca chief, a member of a Plains nation whose homeland lay along the Niobrara River in present-day Nebraska until the 1870s. The heading "Illust'd Sweet Caporal" names a cigarette brand, and the card was likely packed with the cigarettes to encourage buyers to collect the full set. Cards like this were common in the 1880s, when tobacco makers used illustrated series to sell products, and many drew on popular ideas of Plains people rather than on portraits of named individuals. The record gives no personal name for the sitter, so the image is best read as a commercial picture of its era.
| Created / published | [1889?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph ; 2 3/4 x 1 1/2 in. |
| Genre | Feb. 7 |
| Notes | Title from item. At head of title: Illust'd Sweet Caporal. Checklist on verso: Collection no. 8 of fifty subjects |
| Subjects | Tribal chiefs--1880-1890. Indians of North America--Great Plains--1880-1890. Ponca Indians--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,125 × 5,147 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223274 |
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