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Studio Portrait of Emma Blackhawk Holt
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Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk woman posing standing with her right arm on a chair draped with a cloth. She is wearing a Winnebago charm, coin earrings, a bird bone, a wampum necklace, and holding Van Schaick's studio blanket over her left arm. Identified as Emma Blackhawk Bigbear Beaver-Smith Holt (Female Yellowthunder) (WauKonChawZeeWinKah), married to Henry Holt.
1895
Van Schaick, Charles
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WHi 60604
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