Jimmie Sequint
date: ca. 1897
taken by: Benedicte Wrensted
source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Jimmie Sequint was a member of the Northern Shoshone people in southern Idaho. His portrait was one of many photographs taken by the Danish-American photographer Benedicte Wrensted (1859-1949).
Wrensted had learned photography from her aunt, Charlotte Borgen, and opened her own studio in the Danish city of Horsens before immigrating to the United States in 1894. From her studio in Pocatello, Idaho she photographed many members of Northern Shoshone and Bannock tribes.
According to Smithsonian anthropologist Joanna Cohan Scherer, "What sets Wrensted's work apart is her skill in portraying the humanity—the individuality—of the people who posed for her. She captured their presence with a dignity and beauty that transcend time and place."
For more information see: "A Danish Photographer of Idaho Indians: Benedicte Wrensted" (2006) by Joanna Cohan Scherer.
(Self-portrait of Benedicte Wrensted)
