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Portrait photograph of John Maskwas, a member of the Potawatomi tribe of North American Indians. He stands, wearing a plaid wrap tied around his middle and holding a peacock feather fan. c 1898 Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
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http://wellcomeimages.org Platinum Print 19th century By: F.A. RinehartPublished: - Printed: c 1898 Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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