Julius Meyer - Box-Ka-ne-sha-hash-ta-Ka

[grahamew]

Supposed to show a Lakota , Iron Bull, and his wife. Omaha?



With some Pawnee - like most of the following images, it was taken by Frank Currier 


A variant on the above...




Meyer with Pawnees, identified as Te-Taska-ke-rook; Ta-la-ka; La-tack-kach-ta-ka; Julius Meyer; Tau-e-gut-le-sha; Le-stachke-ge-re; La-ga-lash-line; Tou-rahe-sha-kish (https://nebraskahistory.pastperfectonline.com/photo/3E57ABF8-2BAE-449D-B9D3-793839638569)



With Pawnee outside his store, 163 Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska, about 1875 - is that Petalesharo II sitting next to Meyer?


Outside his shop in 1878


With Sicangu Lakota headmen


A variant of the above - note the names of the Lakota are incorrect. The actual identities are: Meyer, One Who Runs the Tiger, Roast or Bald Eagle, Gassy





Meyer standing next to Red Cloud. L-R seated: Sitting Bull the Oglala, Swift Bear and Spotted Tail. Taken in Omaha in May, 1875


A variant on the above. The interpreters standing L-R are Louis Bordeaux and William Garnett


Both supposedly show him with Winnebago Indian, but the second is a Pawnee group.

Somewhere... we have better versions of these...

Ah, one of them at least:


Meyer and Iowa leaders?


Edit: Here's a slightly better version of the top photo - looks like Meyer and the Pawnee men again



That man next to the guy with the knife club bears a resemblance to Robert Louis Stevenson. Can't be, can it? He was in Nebraska in August, 1879, however...


Pretty sure this is Meyer as the victim of a mock scalping, featuring the same Pawnee men in two (or three) of the photos above


Meyer with Yellow Smoke's Omaha, who visited Paris in 1883


Meyer with a couple of white men dressed as Indians





While not showing Meyer, the studio is the same as in the first photo in the post

[grahamew]

I'm assuming these were taken in the 60s.

[gregor]

grahamew, thanks for this bulk of marvelous photographs.
Here some Information on Julius Meyer.

Julius Meyer
(1839 – 1909)
Julius Meyer was a well-known Omaha businessman and member of the Jewish community for many years.
Meyer was born in Bromberg, Prussia/Germany in 1839. In 1867, he emigrated to Omaha and began developing acquaintances with Indians. He was gifted in languages and able to converse in six Indian languages. He served as an interpreter temporary and an in the late 1860s he opened an Indian Curiosity shop, called the "Indian Wigwam Emporium" in Omaha. Among his customers were many European Museums.
Photographs of Julius Meyer and his Indian friends gained wide circulation. In one case a photo had cost Meyer several ponies to convince the Natives to pose with him.

The natives held him in high esteem and he was known among his friends as “Box-ka-re-sha-hash-ta-ka” meaning "The curly haired white chief with one tongue”. The Natives trusted him. He advertised himself as "Julius Meyer, Box-ka-re-she-hash-ta-ka - Indian Trader, Indian Interpreter and Dealer in Indian Curiosities”.
Meyer closed his “Indian Wigwam” in 1880, but retained his association with the Indians. In 1883, he was hired to accompany a group of Omahas and Winnebagos to Paris. Later he had a short career as insurance sales representative.

Julius Meyer was a founder of the Omaha Musical Union, and member of the Concordia, a German singing society. In 1886 he organized a Young Men’s Hebrew Association in Omaha. This Association sponsored social and literary entertainments.
After many years of active participation in civic and Jewish affairs, Julius Meyer was found dead in Hanscom Park (Omaha), on May 10, 1909. Apparently he commited suicide.

Toksha, Gregor

[Dietmar]

The white men in the photo are, back row: Julius Meyer, August Wilhelm and Franz Rummel; the Indian man with the knife club is She-rak-wot-cowy or The One That Strikes First.

The two white men sitting are: Max Liebling and Felix Kraemer.

[grahamew]

D**n. It would have been nice had it been RLS. Great version of the photo. Is Rummel the famous pianist?

While I'm at it, here's Meyer and Standing Bear of the Ponca:

[kashiapomo]

Omaha Daily Bee

Omaha, Nebraska

18 Feb 1900, Sun • Page 13

[grahamew]

An upgrade one of the Currier images showing Meyer with some Pawnee men:


An advert for Meyer's 'Indian Wigwam':


... on the back of this:

The identificatons have been corrected in the first post

[grahamew]

As above - Meyer and Iowa headmen?

Two of the figures also appear in the same clothing here: