Wah-con-ja-z-gah (Yellow Thunder), Warrior chief 120 years old

Wah-con-ja-z-gah (Yellow Thunder), Warrior chief 120 years old

Photograph

H. H. Bennett

Maker
American, b. Canada, 1843–1908

Wah-con-ja-z-gah (Yellow Thunder), Warrior chief 120 years old

From Among the Ho-Chunk \ Wanderings among the Wonders and Beauties of Wisconsin Scenery


ca. 1873
Albumen silver prints
Image (each): 3 1/8 × 2 15/16 in. (8 × 7.4 cm)
Mount: 3 7/16 × 6 15/16 in. (8.7 × 17.7 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer, 1951
1981.6475.0024
Inscriptions Printed on mount on recto, LC: PHOTOGRAPHED AND PUBLISHED BY H. H. BENNETT, \ Kilbourn City, Wis.
Printed on mount on recto, RC: WANDERINGS AMONG THE WONDERS AND BEAUTIES OF \ Wisconsin Scenery.
Printed on mount on recto, BR: Among the Winnebago Indians \ 277 Wah-con-ja-z-gah (Yellow Thunder) Warrior chief 120 y's old.

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