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Hollow Horn Bear

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Original – Hollow Horn Bear (1850 – 1913) was a Brulé Lakota leader, who fought in a number of battles, including that at Little Big Horn. He later testified before the US Supreme Court in the case of Ex parte Crow Dog, rode in the inaugural parades of presidents Roosevelt and Wilson, and was featured on the five dollar bank note and a 1922 US postage stamp.

Reason

Never done this before, but I figured I'd give it a go. Found this a while ago while digging through a few hundred, maybe a thousand or more images from this LOC dump on Commons. Just a visually striking image of the type that made me super interested to figure out who this guy was, and then wound up writing his article, and a then a bunch of related articles. Turns out he wasn't just a native but was widely described as the native par excellence, and often lauded in the period papers for his striking physical appearance and stature (the guy was huge). Wound up being the archetypal physical appearance of a native on the 1922 stamp and the five dollar bill, and would have been notable only for his physical appearance even if he had not done a whole bunch of other really interesting things. The image is a completely unedited scan with the exception of a slight crop to remove artifacts of the original glass negative.

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Hollow Horn Bear

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Traditional dress

Creator

Part of the Library of Congress Harris & Ewing collection, almost certainly taken in Washington D. C. in either 1905 or 1913 while Hollow Horn Bear was present for his participation in the respective inaugural parades. Unable to absolutely verify this beyond the context of the biography, and the original LOC description, along with the context of the collection, which is largely made up of period politicians and taken in Washington.

• Support as nominator – GMG^talk 10:55, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
• Conditional Support – Quite a few scratches and dust spots; support when/if they are removed. --Janke | Talk 12:35, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

• Hmm...Good point. I'll look at doing more in depth touch-ups tonight. GMG^talk 12:41, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Full support after restoration. --Janke | Talk 06:47, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

• Support – (Conditional Per Janke.) A face with character. High EV for a Native American leader who seems not widely known today despite his prominence in 1890-1910. Sca (talk) 13:16, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
• Support - Excellent. DonFB (talk) 23:15, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
• Okay Janke, Sca, I threw a few hours at it and I think I've gotten it cleaned up pretty well. Lemme know what you think. I'll be honest, I haven't fired up GIMP since college, and it was definitely interesting retraining myself how to fix these kinds of things. But hopefully I did alright. GMG^talk 23:23, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

⇒ Looks mighty good to me for a century-old photo. Sca (talk) 14:45, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

• Support – Yann (talk) 16:09, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
• Support — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 23:29, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
• support©Geni (talk) 13:04, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Promoted File:Hollow Horn Bear LCCN 2016858434 (2) (cropped).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:57, 6 July 2018 (UTC)