Bird Head or Waj-in-ga-ba

Unknown

Date

1882
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Albumen silver print
Dimensions

Image: 5 5/16 x 3 11/16 in.
Sheet: 7 9/16 x 5 1/16 in.
Mount: 8 7/16 x 5 15/16 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
l.l. in image: Wajinga ba.
l.r. in image: Ponka.15.
Mount Veso:
u.c. to u.r. printed on paper label: Waj-in-ga-ba Ponca.
u.l. to u.r. printed on paper label: Wa-zhin-ga pa, commonly translated \ Bird Head (as if Wazhinga, bird [underlined] and pa head) \ Samuel Fremont said, in 1888, that it \ referred to "a bird that has a white bill, \ with red feathers on the head and neck, \ not the woodcock". Chief of the Wa-sha-be, \ a buffalo gens. This photograph was taken \ about 1882 when the Ponka and Omaha delegates \ met the Dakota (under White Thunder) and Sec. \ Kirkwood to arrange about the Ponka reservation. \ Standing Bear evidently considered himself \ the superior of Wazhinga pa, for when the delegation \ was walking to the Photographic gallery, Standing\ Bear would not carry the satchel containing his \ Indian attire, but made Wazhinga pa act as his body \ servant and trudge behind him with the satchel.
c. in graphite: 988. \ Neg. No. 4194
Collection Name

Bureau of American Ethnology Collection
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

P1967.2442
Copyright

Public domain

Location: Off view

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