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Ponca chiefs named Primeau: Lone Chief & Big Elk, Antoine & Robert, father & son 1858 & 1877
Ponca Indian Chiefs
(l-r) E-Nan Ni-Ka-Ga-Hi / Ash-Nan-E-Ka-n-ga-hi /Ash-nan-e-kah-gah-he - Lone Chief,
aka Antoine Primeaux
, Standing Buffalo, Iron Whip Hard Walker
Title: Group Portrait of Four Men 1858 / 1 . 2 . 3
Creator: Shindler, Antonio(n) Zeno
Contained in: Glass Negatives of Indians
(Collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology) 1850s-1930s
Physical_Description: 1 007 in x 009 in photograph Black and white collodion glass negative
Culture: Ponca
Local_Number: NAA INV 06621300 / OPPS NEG 04232
National Anthropological Archives
Lone Chief aka Group portrait of four Ponca men 1856
Portrait of On-Pon-Ton-Ga or Ump-Pa-Tonga (Big Elk), Called Robert Primeau, Son of Lone Chief,
in Partial Native Dress with Bear Claw Necklace and Holding Pipe-tomahawk 14 NOV 1877
Creator: Jackson, William Henry
Contained in: Glass Negatives of Indians (Collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology) 1850s-1930s
Physical_Description: 1 007 in x 009 in photograph
Black and white collodion glass negative
Culture: Ponca
Local_Number: NAA INV 06620800 / OPPS NEG 04192
Place of creation: District of Columbia Washington
Cite as: BAE GN 04192 06620800
Repository Loc: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland

also see "Ponca man, Chief Big Elk, head chief of the Ponca Indians. Sun Dance 1905" and "Portrait (Front) of O-Po-To-Ga (Big Elk) MAR 1897" and ""Ongpatonga. (Big Elk) Chief of the Omawhaws."" and "[Delegation to Washington, March 1897] 1897" Osage.
National Anthropological Archives

Big Elk aka Robert Primeau, son of Lone Chief, On-Pon-Ton-Ga or Ump-Pa-Tonga (Big Elk), called Robert Primeau, son of Lone Chief 1877

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P. X. Promo :: P Premo :: Pierre Primeau with the Ponca 1825
Primeau locale 1825-1863

tom kunesh september 2008