Young Pawnee Man with Single Feather

Max Meyer · 171 Farnam St., Omaha, Nebraska (publisher); photographer unidentified

Date: c. 1870–1878
Medium: Carte-de-visite
Subject: Indigenous

A waist-up portrait of a young Pawnee man, draped in a hide robe. The Omaha, Nebraska imprint places this carte-de-visite within the final years of the Pawnee Nation's presence on their ancestral lands before their forced removal to Indian Territory in 1874-1875. Published by the merchant Max Meyer, brother of the Indian trader Julius Meyer, the likeness represents the intense commercial and photographic interest in the tribe during a period of profound transition.

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