IDNO

P.8695.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Tah-Ra-Kee. Deer Ham Iowa 3.” [typed text]

Full length seated portrait of Iowa chief Tah-Ra-Kee, Ta-reke or Tah-ra-kee (Deer Ham; Dear Thigh) adorned with a cloth and feather headdress with four eagle feathers and bead work, bead ear ornaments, bead neck ornaments, a peace medal? on scarf neck ornament, possibly a second peace medal? on cloth wrist ornament, and holds a walking cane. He wears a mixture of traditional and European clothing, including, patterned shirt, leather leggings and moccasins, both decorated with bead work, and blanket wrapped around his waist. The fringed chair is identifiable in both Shindler’s and Gardner’s photographs.

Place

N America; United States of America; District of Columbia; Washington D.C.; (Iowa)

Cultural Affliation

Native American; Plains Indian; Iowa

Named Person

Tah-Ra-Kee, Ta-reke or Tah-ra-kee (Deer Ham; Dear Thigh)

Photographer

Shindler, Antonio Zeno

Collector / Expedition

Bureau of American Ethnology

Date

February 1869

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Bureau of American Ethnology

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Place: Information in the Region field refers to the place where the photograph was taken, with the information in the brakets refers to the place of origin of the subject represented. [JD 24/4/2007]

Date: Information in the date field refers to the date of the creation of the image. The date when this copy of the image was made is uncertain.

Related Image: Same image held by NAA, Smithsonian Institution, 3900-B [NAA, Smithsonian Institution glass negative number for this image]
Name of person: Deer Thigh (Ta-reka), (Tah-ra-kee) or Deer ham (Tar-a ku).
Group: Iowa.
Date of original: 1869 (ca. Feb. 11 when signed treaty).
Creator/Photographer: Antonio(n).Zeno.Schindler.
Published Catalogue Reference: Schindler Catalogue 195; Jackson Catalogue 391.
[Source: Paula Fleming, Photo Archivist, National Anthropological Archives (NAA), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C., August 1999]

Biographical Information: Deer Ham was fourth chief of the tribe until October, 1876, when he was deposed for persistent interference with the business of the agency. He had been suspended before, but was reinstated by another agent. Age, 50 years; height, 5.8 1/2; head, 22; chest, 41 1/2; weight, 179.

Additional information added to this record by G.Boast, 09/1999; H.Cornwall-Jones, 12/1999.

Related image : Same image held at the Smithsonian National Anthropological Archive with the following information:
Creator: Schindler, Antonio(n) Zeno
Title: Portrait (Front) of Ta-Reke or Tah-Ra-Kee or Tar-A-Ku (Deer Thigh) or (Deer Ham) in Partial Native Dress with Headdress and Peace Medal? and Holding Pipe-tomahawk 1869
Contained in: Glass Negatives of Indians (Collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology) 1850s-1930s
Phy. Description: 1 007 in x 009 in photograph Black and white collodion glass negative
Place of creation: District of Columbia Washington
Cite as: BAE GN 03900A 06614800
Culture: Iowa
Local Number: NAA INV 06614800; OPPS NEG 03900 A
[Source: Smithsonian SIRIS, JD 30/10/2006]

Bibliographical Reference: Portrait of Deer Ham included in group portrait in Harper's Magazine ‘THE INDIAN DELEGATION FROM NEBRASKA’, January 27, 1866, pages 49-50 (Illustrated Article). Text includes:
“We give on our first page portraits of four of the Indian delegates from Nebraska. The delegation, consisting altogether of eight Indians, arrived in Washington on the evening of January 2, in company with Major J. A. Burbank, United States Indian Commissioner for the Great Nebraska Agency. There were five Indians of the Iowa tribe and three of the Sac and Fox tribe. Three of our portraits are of Iowas, namely: Lag-er-lash, or British, Too-hi, or Brier Rose, and Tar-a-kee, or Deer-ham, the two first being half–civilized, while Deer-ham represents the wild portion of the tribe. Pe-ti-o-ki-ma, or Hard-fish, is a wild representative of the Sacs and Foxes.
Many of the delegation are dressed in wild aboriginal costume. ...” [Source: Harpers - The American West, http://thewest.harpweek.com, JD 30/10/2006]