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Portrait of Little Elk
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Hand-colored lithograph of Little Elk (Hoo-Wan-ne-ka), chief of the Ho-Chunk, as he appeared during an official visit to Washington, D.C. in 1824. This portrait appeared in the "History of the Indians of North American," published by Thomas McKenney and James Hall in 1849.
1849
McKenney, Thomas and James Hall
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