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White Rabbit Longtail and C.A. Leicht
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Full-length studio portrait of an 85-year-old Ho-Chunk man, White Rabbit Longtail, posing standing and smiling while pretending to scalp his friend, C.A. Leicht of New Lisbon, who is posing on one knee with outstretched arms and a pretend grimace.
August 1914
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