Photograph on photographer’s mat
8 in high x 6 in wide; 20.32 cm high x 15.24 cm wide
Provenance: Private collection, Upstate New York
This mounted photograph depicts the Ponca chief identified as “Grizzly Above,” photographed by Drake of Ponca City, Oklahoma. The portrait belongs to the early 20th-century studio tradition of Native photographic portraiture in Oklahoma, where sitters were often shown in formal dress and personal regalia. The photographer’s impressed studio mark on the mount helps place the image within Drake’s Ponca City practice.
The sitter is shown standing in a feather headdress, decorated clothing, and beaded adornment, posed before a studio backdrop with a chair behind him. The full-length composition records clothing, stance, and presentation with a more complete view than a bust portrait. As an identified Ponca portrait, the photograph offers a period visual record of leadership, dress, and photographic representation in the early 1900s.
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Photograph on photographer’s mat
8 in high x 6 in wide; 20.32 cm high x 15.24 cm wide
Provenance: Private collection, Upstate New York
This mounted photograph depicts the Ponca chief identified as “Grizzly Above,” photographed by Drake of Ponca City, Oklahoma. The portrait belongs to the early 20th-century studio tradition of Native photographic portraiture in Oklahoma, where sitters were often shown in formal dress and personal regalia. The photographer’s impressed studio mark on the mount helps place the image within Drake’s Ponca City practice.
The sitter is shown standing in a feather headdress, decorated clothing, and beaded adornment, posed before a studio backdrop with a chair behind him. The full-length composition records clothing, stance, and presentation with a more complete view than a bust portrait. As an identified Ponca portrait, the photograph offers a period visual record of leadership, dress, and photographic representation in the early 1900s.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
