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Title
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Apache Chiefs, Da-va-ko and Dor-con-each-la
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Description
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Studio portrait of two Apache chiefs, Da-va-ko and Dor-con-each-la, in traditional dress. A handwritten description reads" "Apache Chiefs, who have a history not soon to be forgotten by the people of New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas...they was very desperate." The print is on a boudoir card mount, produced by the W.L. Sawyer's Indian Art Gallery, Purcell, Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
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Date
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1890~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Chief Geronimo, Apache
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Description
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Reproduction of a portrait painting of Apache Chief Geronimo, by E.A. Burbank. Fort Sill, O.T. [Oklahoma Territory], 1898.
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Date
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1899
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Object Type
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Artwork
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Title
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Five Apache Men Seated
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Description
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Studio portrait of five Apache males in native dress. The print is on a boudoir card mount, produced by W.L. Sawyers Indian Art Gallery, Purcell, Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
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Date
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1890~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Indians Killing Beef Near Fort Sill
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Description
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Photographic print on a boudoir card mount showing groups of Native American women and young girls slaughtering beef. The subjects are likely Comanche, Kiowa or Apache. The handwritten title on front of the card reads "Indians killing beef on the reserve near Fort Sill, I.T. [Indian Territory]. The image was produced by the W.L. Sawyer's Indian Art Gallery, Purcell, Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
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Date
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1890~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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P23 Native American/Western Photograph Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection contains over over 140 glass plate negatives, cabinet cards, and assorted prints. The images are primarily of Native American peoples, cowboys, and "Boomer" settlers in Indian Territory (Oklahoma) during the late-1880s through the early-1900s. The principal tribes represented include the Ponca, Kiowa, Comanche, Sac and Fox, Otoe, Pawnee and Apache. Many of the images were taken by prominent western photographers of the period including Thomas Croft, William S. Prettyman, George Cornish, and William E. Irwin. There are also fifteen photographs of Sioux Indians and U.S. soldiers taken by the Northwestern Photo Company during the 1890/91 conflict at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota.
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Date
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1880~/1901~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
