Native American & Western Photograph Collection

Title: Unidentifed Group of Indians and White Men
Description: Photographic print on 4" x 8" cardboard mount of an unidentfied group of Native Americans and white men with their backs facing the camera. The top of a tipi can be seen in the distance. It is likely the subjects are watching a ceremony of some sort.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Unidentifed Group of Indians and White Men
Description: Photographic print on 5" x 8" cardboard mount of an unidentfied group of Native Americans and white men with their backs facing the camera. It is likely their a watching a ceremony of some sort.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wounded Knee, Gathering up the Dead
Description: Three workers loading the frozen bodies of Sioux dead into a wagon. Soldiers on horseback are looking upon the scene from atop a hill.
Date: 1891~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wounded Knee, Disarming the Hostile Indians
Description: Indians at the Pine Ridge Agency looking off into the distance toward an unidentified Sioux camp and what looks to be a line of soldiers on horseback.
Date: 1891-01
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wounded Knee, Birds Eye View of Battlefield
Description: Distant view, looking southwest, of the battlefield at Wounded Knee. Several people with horses can be seen searching a deserted Sioux camp.
Date: 1891-01-01
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wounded Knee, Deserted Sioux Camp
Description: Distant view, looking south, of a deserted Sioux camp. Soldiers and wagons can be seen in the background.
Date: 1891-01-01
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Chief Geronimo, Apache
Description: Reproduction of a portrait painting of Apache Chief Geronimo, by E.A. Burbank. Fort Sill, O.T. [Oklahoma Territory], 1898.
Date: 1899
Object Type: Artwork

Title: Ponca Indian Sun Dance
Description: A Ponca Indian Sun Dance ceremony. The participants are in a line and can seen holding feathered spears in their mouths.
Date: 1894
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Huma of Otoes, Second Chief
Description: Studio portrait of Huma, Second Chief of the Otoes, in native dress. The print is on a boudoir card mount, produced by the W.L. Sawyer's Indian Art Gallery, Purcell, Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
Date: 1889~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sac and Fox Bark House
Description: Exterior view of a large bark house in a Sac & Fox Indian village. Several individuals are seated in front of the dwelling; third from left is Pa She Pa Ho, the Sac Chief.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Otoe Indian Family
Description: Photographic print on a boudoir/cabinet card mount of an Otoe family - husband, wife and infant - in front of what looks to be a frame dwelling. The mix of traditional and western garb worn by the husband is indicative of the acculturation of native peoples in Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
Date: 1880~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Baptiste Bayhylle, Pawnee Indian
Description: Elderly Pawnee Indian, Baptiste Bayhylle, wrapped in a blanket and wearing a top hat. Bayhylle was a U.S. Indian interpreter for the Pawnee, and was thought to be nearly 100 years old when this photograph was taken.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Huma of Otoes, Second Chief
Description: Studio portrait of Huma, Second Chief of the Otoes, in native dress. The print is on a boudoir card mount, produced by the W.L. Sawyer's Indian Art Gallery, Purcell, Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
Date: 1889~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Comanche Brave (One Who Fears Nothing)
Description: Studio portrait of a Comanche brave identified as "One Who Fears Nothing." The print is on a boudoir card mount, produced by Lenny & Sawyers Indian Views, Purcell, Oklahoma.
Date: 1890~/1899~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Oklahoma Indian and Cowboy Views, Photograph 24
Description: Photograph twenty-four of twenty-four in Collection of Oklahoma Indian and Cowboy Views by William S. Prettyman and George B. Cornish. It is titled "Osage Indian Chiefs and Councilors" and is a studio portrait of thirteen Osage males. Second from left in the middle row is Osage Chief, Che To Pa.
Date: 1889~
Object Type: Photograph