[JACKSON, William Henry (1843-1942), photographer]. Boudoir card of Omaha Chief Standing Hawk and his wife. Ca 1868.

Boudoir photograph on cardstock mount of Standing Hawk with his wife, Mi-Ho-Ga, unmarked but by William Henry Jackson, ca 1868, with handwritten inscription on verso, "Gre-dthe-nuzhe. Standing Hawk and Squaw / Omaha Chief / the oldest chief in the tribe." With pasted label on verso from the "Second International Congress of Eugenics Exhibit of Scientific Studies," held at the American Museum of Natural History in the fall of 1921, with an ownership record of C.F. Fish of South Swansea, Massachusetts.

In cataloging this negative, Jackson noted that Standing Hawk was the oldest chief in the tribe whose words always commanded attention.

Provenance: Cowan's, American History, 9 December 2010, Lot 408.

The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography

Small pinholes in top right and left corners of mount.

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[JACKSON, William Henry (1843-1942), photographer]. Boudoir card of Omaha Chief Standing Hawk and his wife. Ca 1868.

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