Native American & Western Photograph Collection
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Title
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Unidentifed Group of Indians and White Men
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Description
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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.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Unidentifed Group of Indians and White Men
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Description
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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.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Wounded Knee, Gathering up the Dead
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Description
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Three workers loading the frozen bodies of Sioux dead into a wagon. Soldiers on horseback are looking upon the scene from atop a hill.
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Date
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1891~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Wounded Knee, Disarming the Hostile Indians
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1891-01
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Wounded Knee, Birds Eye View of Battlefield
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Description
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Distant view, looking southwest, of the battlefield at Wounded Knee. Several people with horses can be seen searching a deserted Sioux camp.
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Date
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1891-01-01
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Wounded Knee, Deserted Sioux Camp
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Description
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Distant view, looking south, of a deserted Sioux camp. Soldiers and wagons can be seen in the background.
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Date
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1891-01-01
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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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Siem-o-nad-o, Mojave Indian
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Description
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Reproduction of a portrait painting of Siem-o-nad-o, a Mojave Indian, by E.A. Burbank, San Carlos, Ariz.
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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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Ponca Indian Sun Dance
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Description
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A Ponca Indian Sun Dance ceremony. The participants are in a line and can seen holding feathered spears in their mouths.
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Date
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1894
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Sac and Fox Bark House
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Oklahoma Indian and Cowboy Views, Photograph 19
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Description
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Photograph nineteen of twenty-four in Collection of Oklahoma Indian and Cowboy Views by William S. Prettyman and George B. Cornish. It is titled "Holding Down a Town Lot, Guthrie, April 22, 1889" and shows two settlers watching over their lots in what will be the town of Guthrie, OK. The gentleman in the foreground smoking the pipe is identified as P. Pearson (Peter Pearson), behind him is Dr. Acker; both men were friends of the photographer from Arkansas City, KS.
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Date
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1889-04-22
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Otoe Indian Family
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Description
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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).
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Date
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1880~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Baptiste Bayhylle, Pawnee Indian
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Comanche Brave (One Who Fears Nothing)
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1890~/1899~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Oklahoma Indian and Cowboy Views, Photograph 01
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Description
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Photograph one of twenty-four in Collection of Oklahoma Indian and Cowboy Views [ca. 1889] by William S. Prettyman and George B. Cornish. It is titled "Robbers Cave in Cherokee Strip" and shows three men in front of the Barker Outlaw Cave. From left to right, the Reverend A.C. Kronk, Arkansas City; J.W. "Cherokee" Jordan; and photographer William S. Prettyman.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Photograph