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Ta-Ka-Ko-Grey Fox, Chief of the Sacs and Foxes

Ta-Ka-Ko-Grey Fox, Chief of the Sacs and Foxes

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Ta-Ka-Ko-Grey Fox, Chief of the Sacs and Foxes
ArtistAmerican, 1827–after 1875
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Ta-Ka-Ko-Grey Fox, Chief of the Sacs and Foxes
Date1857
MediumSalted paper print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 7 13/16 × 5 13/16 in. (19.9 × 14.7 cm)
 Sheet: 7 13/16 × 5 13/16 in. (19.9 × 14.7 cm)
 Mount: 13 1/8 × 10 1/8 in. (33.4 × 25.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Endowment
Object number2020.132
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceVictor F. Germack and Lori Shepard Germack, New York; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
Exhibition History"The Photograph and the American Indian," Princeton University Library, September 5, 1985–January 12, 1986.

"Paper Promises: Early American Photography," J. Paul Getty Museum, February 27–May 27, 2018.
Published References Alfred L. Bush and Lee Clark Mitchell, "The Photograph and the American Indian," Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. Mazie M. Harris, "Paper Promises: Early American Photography," Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2018. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
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