Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hollow Horn Bear LCCN 2016858434 (2) (cropped).jpg

Hollow Horn Bear
Voting period ends on 6 Jul 2018  at 10:55:49 (UTC)
 * Reason:Never done this before, but I figured I'd give it a go. Found this a while ago while digging through a few hundred, maybe a thousand or more images from this LOC dump on Commons. Just a visually striking image of the type that made me super interested to figure out who this guy was, and then wound up writing his article, and a then a bunch of related articles. Turns out he wasn't just a native but was widely described as the native par excellence, and often lauded in the period papers for his striking physical appearance and stature (the guy was huge). Wound up being the archetypal physical appearance of a native on the 1922 stamp and the five dollar bill, and would have been notable only for his physical appearance even if he had not done a whole bunch of other really interesting things. The image is a completely unedited scan with the exception of a slight crop to remove artifacts of the original glass negative.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Hollow Horn Bear
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/People/Traditional dress
 * Creator:Part of the Library of Congress Harris & Ewing collection, almost certainly taken in Washington D. C. in either 1905 or 1913 while Hollow Horn Bear was present for his participation in the respective inaugural parades. Unable to absolutely verify this beyond the context of the biography, and the original LOC description, along with the context of the collection, which is largely made up of period politicians and taken in Washington.


 * Support as nominator –  G M G  talk  10:55, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 *  Conditional Support – Quite a few scratches and dust spots; support when/if they are removed. --Janke | Talk 12:35, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Hmm...Good point. I'll look at doing more in depth touch-ups tonight.  G M G  talk  12:41, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Full support after restoration. --Janke | Talk 06:47, 27 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Support – (Conditional Per Janke.) A face with character. High EV for a Native American leader who seems not widely known today despite his prominence in 1890-1910. Sca (talk) 13:16, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Support - Excellent. DonFB (talk) 23:15, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Okay Janke, Sca, I threw a few hours at it and I think I've gotten it cleaned up pretty well. Lemme know what you think. I'll be honest, I haven't fired up GIMP since college, and it was definitely interesting retraining myself how to fix these kinds of things. But hopefully I did alright.  G M G  talk  23:23, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * ⇒ Looks mighty good to me for a century-old photo. Sca (talk) 14:45, 27 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Support – Yann (talk) 16:09, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Support &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 23:29, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
 * support©Geni (talk) 13:04, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 10:57, 6 July 2018 (UTC)