Two Plains Men with Rifle — Indian Wigwam Studio Portrait

Two unidentified Plains men pose for the camera in the Omaha studio of Julius Meyer. Known as the Indian Wigwam, Meyer's establishment was a commercial enterprise that sold staged portraits of visiting Indigenous delegations to a national audience. The sitters' button-front coats and beaded leggings conform to a visual formula Meyer developed for his portraits of named leaders, though these men remain anonymous, their personal identities unrecorded on the card.