Scanned from a transparency, then color corrected by Pat Cagney.

It-Kha-Ka-Hang-Zhe, Standing Elk, Warrior, Yankton Sioux

Artist Julian Vannerson (American, b. 1827)

CultureAmerican

Date1857-1858

MediumSalted paper print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 7 7/8 x 5 3/4 in. (20 x 14.6 cm)
Overall, Support: 13 x 10 in. (33 x 25.4 cm)

InscribedOn the original board mount below the image, the following is written in ink: "It-kha-ka-hang-zhe Standing Elk / Warrior Yankton Sioux".

Credit LinePurchase, Horace W. Goldsmith and Art Purchase Funds

Object number92.35

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DescriptionThis is a three-quarter length portrait. This salted paper print was one of a number of portraits made of the American Indians who traveled to Washington to negotiate treaties with the American Government. It was made by Julian Vannerson when he managed the Washington photographic studio of the McClees Brothers.

Label TextJulian Vannerson American (ca. 1826-1880) It-Kha-Ka-Hang-Zhe, Standing Elk, Warrior, Yankton Sioux, 1857-58 Salted paper print Museum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank 92.35 Together with Samuel Cohner, Vannerson made photographs of the American Indian delegations visiting Washington, D.C., in the 1850s, the first systematic record of its kind. Among those images was this portrait of Standing Elk, a member of the Yankton tribe. The tribe signed its treaty with the United States on April 19, 1858. Exhibition History"Treasures for the Community: The Chrysler Collects, 1989-1996," October 25, 1996 - March 2, 1997. "20/20: Fashion in Photography," The Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, September 23, 1999 - January 2, 2000. "Silver Images: The Photography Collection at 25," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., November 5, 2003 - August 2004. "Portraying a Nation: American Portrait Photography, 1850-2010," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, August 25, 2010 - September 11, 2011.Published ReferencesBrooks Johnson, "Mr. J Vannerson...remarkably successful in the mater of likenesses," _The Chrysler Museum Journal_ 1 (1994): 20.