Pawnee Group Portrait — Wm. H. Jackson, Omaha, Nebraska

Two arched-top photographs show three sitters posed against a plain backdrop, one standing between two seated figures. The seated figure at left holds a bow diagonally across the body; the central and right-hand figures are wrapped in blankets. Rocks and loose straw form the foreground setting.

The printed caption reads “Pawnee Indians.” The side imprints read “Wm. H. Jackson, Photographer, Omaha, Neb.” and “Photographs of Indians.” These identify the group as Pawnee and associate the card with William Henry Jackson’s Omaha business. The sitters are not individually named, and the studio address does not establish where the portrait was taken.

A pencilled number following the printed “No.” appears to read 205. A separate pale number near the bottom of each photograph appears to read 45, though that reading needs confirmation. Neither number is repeated on the unprinted reverse, which carries an ink inscription, apparently a name, only partly legible as “E. [?]”.

The photographs are mounted on a yellow card. A fine scratch is visible in the left photograph’s background, with a small patch of surface-paper loss at the right mount edge, clear of the images; otherwise clean and sound.