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Object Number 995-26-00/1.28
Display Title Group harvesting, including Iron Eye on the far left
Descriptions
Object Description Written on album page: "Group of Omaha Indians in their harvesting, in Eastern Nebraska. / They said, 'We are glad you are taking our picture. People East think Indians do not work. This / will show them that we do. - The first one on the left of the picture is Iron Eye, the head man of the / Omahas, and the father of 'Bright Eyes' who visited the Eastern States and England to speak on behalf of the Indians. / The tird from the End on the right is Iron Eye's wife, a sapereor, Christian woman, and the fourth is her mother."
Department Photographic
Date 1880-1900
Artist Joshua W. Davis
Culture
  • Omaha
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Nebraska
Additional Geographic Terms Eastern Nebraska
Dimensions Overall: 19.05 × 24.13 cm (7 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)
Label on object See notes and histories for inscriptions
Provenance
Donor Friends of the Lincoln Library

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