Studio portait of one horned elk (he-kha-ka he-wan zhi), an oglala dakota chief, shown wearing face paint, a feather headress, a necklace, leggings and moccasins. The albumen print photograph is a copy of an earlier daguerreotype. Photograph by john h. Fitzgibbon (daguerreotype), copy by zeno shindler. 18. 3 cm x 13. 3 cm. Originally photographed at st. Louis, missouri, with a later copy made at washington, d. C. Courtesy of the british museum, london. Date: between 1851 and 1852.
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