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Peaux Rouges
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- Description
- A set of ethnographic portraits of Omaha Indians made at the Jardin d'Acclimatation in Paris in 1883. Prince Roland Bonaparte, a trained ethnographer, had the photographs made and compiled information on each of the individuals. Seventeen sitters are shown in front and side views and there is a group portrait of all the participants at the end of the portfolio. The photographer is unidentified.
- Date
- 1883
- Call number
- photCL 440
- Provenance
- Purchased from Andrew Smith Gallery, Inc., February 2000.
- Dimensions
- 42 cm.
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