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Photograph of a Native American Dancer Probably a Traveling Wild West Performer Jacksonville Illinois ca. 1903
1903Best.-Nr. BK0104Jacksonville Illinois: E. L. Young 1903. Original silver gelatin photograph of a Native American dancer in elaborate performance dress mounted on the studio card of E. L. Young. The sitter is shown in an animated pose before what appears to be a temporary canvas or exhibition structure holding dance implements and wearing ankle ornaments. Mount approximately 4 ¼ x 6 inches photograph 3 x 4 inches. Pencil identification of Young's Jacksonville studio to verso. Excellent. A photograph of an Indigenous American dancer likely made during the appearance of a traveling Wild West or related exhibition company in Jacksonville. Although the sitter has not been identified the Jacksonville location and apparent temporary showground setting suggest that the image records a performer from a traveling show rather than a western ethnographic portrait. In fact Pawnee Bill's Wild West appeared in the city in 1903;1 Pawnee Bill's company was among the largest touring Wild West groups of the period and employed Native performers as a major component of its program. We find no other examples and scant record of the photographer E.L. Young though a surviving cabinet card dated 1900 was offered online at the time of writing. 1 "PAWNEE BILL" Jacksonville Journal Courier October 16 1903 7. . E. L. Young unknown
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