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Osage

Description

Studio portraits; family and wickiup; subchiefs at Grand Council, 1875. Views of Industrial Boarding School, Osage Agency in Indian Territory, and a group portrait of white agency employees, ca. 1880.

People identified: Strike Axe; Epe-saun-cee; War Eagle and Eagle Feather; Saucy Chief; Wash-en-pashie; Grey Bird; Two Giver; Hle-ah-too-me (with baby).

Type

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Production date

approximately 1869-approximately 1915.

Call number

photCL 275

Creator

Ingalls, George W (1838-1921)(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

Purchased from Mrs. Elizabeth A. Ingalls, 1923.

Restrictions

Advance arrangements for viewing negatives must be made in advance with the Curator of Photographs. The collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department.

Osage Indians and wickiup, 1879, Northern Indian Territory

Visual Materials

An Osage man, woman and two children sitting in front of a home (wickiup). Meat is drying on rack at right.

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Creek

Visual Materials

Portraits; G. W. Ingalls and others at his headquarters at Union Agency, Oklahoma territory, ca. 1874; F. B. Severs trade store at Okmulgee, with whites, Indians and African-Americans gathered in front; Ingalls and crowd at Grand Council of 1875 at Old Creek Council House. Also views of new stone Council House, boarding school and the Office of Creek Chief Samuel Checato, with men posed in front. People identified: Rev. Daniel Perryman; J. M. Perryman; Ward Coachman; Samuel Checato; G. W. Ingalls and General Shanks. Photographers: 1 carte-de-visite by Stone & Hansard (Denison, TX); John K. Hillers; unidentified.

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Hle-ah-toe-me. Osage mother with babe in cradle. Her husband was killed at Medicine Lodge

Visual Materials

Osage woman seated with blanket around her. A baby is in a cradle-board next to her.

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Ponca

Visual Materials

Studio portraits of Eagle Plume, White Eagle and a group of men in traditional clothing and regalia.

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Choctaw/Chickasaw

Visual Materials

Studio portraits of delegates and U.S.-educated Indian men and women; Council House building and group portraits of tribal members; group portraits of Indian school girls; new homes and buildings built in Indian Territory. People identified: Peter Pitchlyn; Allen Wright; Coleman Cole; Dan Tucker; S. W. Garvin; Ah-it-to-tub-by; D. O. Fisher; Samuel A-ha-tone and Lone Wolf; residence of Smith Paul, Paul's Valley, Oklahoma. Photographers: cartes-de-visite by A. G. DaLee (Lawrence, Kansas) and J. T. Bradshaw (Quincy, Illinois). Also A. Zeno Shindler (1869 portrait of Choctaw delegate Allen Wright).

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Comanche

Visual Materials

Photographs by John K. Hillers, made in camps in vicinity of Grand Council, Oklahoma, ca. 1874-1875. [Note: Sometimes Ingalls' dates on backs of prints and his ledger captions differ by one year – 1874 or 1875]. People identified: Dangerous Eagle; Black Bear; Cheevers and wives; Tabenanaka and his wife.

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