Roman Nose

Hook Nose (Cheyenne: Vóhko'xénéhe, also spelled Woqini and Woquini), historically better known as Roman Nose (c. 1823 – September 17, 1868), was a Native American of the Northern Cheyenne. He is considered to be one of, if not the greatest and most influential warrior during the Plains Indian War of the 1860s. Born during the prosperous days of the fur trade in the 1820s, he was called môséškanetsénoonáhe (Bat) as a youth. He later took the warrior name Hook Nose, which the whites interpreted as Roman Nose.

An aquiline nose (also called a Roman nose or hook nose) is a human nose with a prominent bridge, giving it the appearance of being curved or slightly bent. The word aquiline comes from the Latin word aquilinus ("eagle-like"), an allusion to the curved beak of an eagle. While some have ascribed the aquiline nose to specific ethnic, racial, or geographic groups, and in some cases associated it with other supposed non-physical characteristics (i.e. intelligence, status, personality, etc., see below), no scientific studies or evidence support any such linkage. As with many phenotypical expressions (i.e. 'widow's peak', eye color,  earwax type) it is found in many geographically diverse populations.