Sixth plate tintype, lightly hand colored blue and red, with the following inscribed on the back of the plate: "Crooked Hand Pawnee Brave, S.R. Nichols, Omaha, N.T." Reproduced from a daguerreotype. Housed in a sixth plate case and with a ca 1986 note attesting the image came from the estate of the Western illustrator Langdon Smith. Ca 1850-1860. Crooked Hand wears at least two feathers in his hair and wears a buckskin blanket and several shell and bone necklaces, while displaying an American military sword. An ambrotype showing a slightly different pose from the same sitting with Crooked Hand is housed at the Autry Museum of the American West and includes an inscription stating that the subject was a warrior of the Skidi Band (Pawnee) and died about 1874. A fine tintype of an armed Pawnee warrior in remarkable dress. Condition: Tarnish on plate, along perimeter where plate meets mat. Few scratches in plate. Image a bit dark. Housed in full case fully separated at hinge.
Sixth plate tintype, lightly hand colored blue and red, with the following inscribed on the back of the plate: "Crooked Hand Pawnee Brave, S.R. Nichols, Omaha, N.T." Reproduced from a daguerreotype. Housed in a sixth plate case and with a ca 1986 note attesting the image came from the estate of the Western illustrator Langdon Smith. Ca 1850-1860. Crooked Hand wears at least two feathers in his hair and wears a buckskin blanket and several shell and bone necklaces, while displaying an American military sword. An ambrotype showing a slightly different pose from the same sitting with Crooked Hand is housed at the Autry Museum of the American West and includes an inscription stating that the subject was a warrior of the Skidi Band (Pawnee) and died about 1874. A fine tintype of an armed Pawnee warrior in remarkable dress. Condition: Tarnish on plate, along perimeter where plate meets mat. Few scratches in plate. Image a bit dark. Housed in full case fully separated at hinge.
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