Buffalo Bill Handsomest Indian Maiden He Nu Kaw circa 1880 Metal Print

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This is a restored copy of a chromolithograph poster for the Buffalo Bill Cody Wild West show theatrical poster portraying He Nu Kaw ["the first born"]; "The Handsomest Indian Maiden in the World." This promotional poster was printed circa 1880 by W.J. Morgan & Company, Lithographers [The Morgan Lithograph Company], Chicago. This poster depicts a beautiful young Native American woman dressed in idealized traditional Native American clothing wearing a small headdress and holding an archer's bow as she carries a quiver of arrows slung over her back.

I have been a visual artist since the 1960s. I'm originally from Orange County, New York, located in the Metro New York City region where I was raised on the working dairy farm [Ogden Farm] which my family founded in 1832. As a young man I spent many long hours working in gardens, crop fields, pastures and in barns with livestock. I grew up surrounded by antiques. I graduated from Bucknell University where I majored in art which included a semester in Florence studying Italian Renaissance art. After Bucknell I studied at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. I have lived throughout the U.S. [including three years in Sante Fe, New Mexico], in the Caribbean and in Mexico and Central America. I now reside in the 19th century...