Loots-tow-oots (Rattlesnake) and Wife

The sitter Loots-tow-oots, a man of the Skidi Pawnee, is depicted with his wife in a formal studio portrait by William Henry Jackson. His United States Army-pattern frock coat and cavalry saber identify him as a member of the Pawnee Scouts, who served the military on the central Plains in the late 1860s. Issued from Jackson's Omaha studio before he joined the Hayden Survey, this carte-de-visite is an early example from the photographer's work cataloguing the peoples of the West.