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Pte Hin Paxpa (Tags of Buffalo Hair) and her husband Chanxaxa (Hump)
Frederick Weygold1909
MARKK
Hamburg, Germany
At Chanxaxa’s request this picture was taken during the giveaway ceremony in summer 1909. He and his wife Pte Hin Papa wore traditional clothes on this occasion. The 78-year-old Chanxaxa was Frederick Weygold’s primary informant on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Details concerning the life of his wife were not conveyed to the museum.
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- Title: Pte Hin Paxpa (Tags of Buffalo Hair) and her husband Chanxaxa (Hump)
- Creator: Frederick Weygold
- Date Created: 1909
- Type: Photograph
- Publisher: Museum of Ethnology Hamburg
- Rights: Museum of Ethnology Hamburg | Photographic Archive Collection
- External Link: Homepage Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg
- Medium: nitrate negative
- Date of Acquisition: 1910
- Context of Origin: Pine Ridge Reservation,South Dakota, USA
- Collection: Coll. Frederick Weygold
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