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Cheyenne

Description

Photographs by John K. Hillers, except three by unidentified photographers. Most are group and single portraits of Cheyenne delegates to the annual Grand Council, Okmulgee, Oklahoma, 1875. Several views of temporary encampments.

[Note: Sometimes Ingalls' dates on backs of prints and his ledger captions differ by one year – 1874 or 1875].

People identified: G. W. Ingalls with group of Cheyenne, 1875; Phil McCusker, U.S. Interpreter, and wife "Minnehaha"; Little Chief; Feathered Wolf; Plenty Horses; White Shield and son; Starving Elk; Little Bear and wife; Buffalo Meat; Chief Whirlwind and wife; Wolf on the Hill and wife.

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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

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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Pawnee

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Photographs by John K. Hillers. Portraits of Big Spotted Horse and Lone Chief, near Okmulgee, Oklahoma, 1875.

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Comanche

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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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Arapaho

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Photographs by John K. Hillers, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, 1875. People identified: Chief Left Hand; Chief Big Mouth and his daughters; Bear Robe and wife; Chief White Man; Yellow Bear and wife.

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[large print] Cheyenne family group, with tent and pony hitched to travois. Print embossed "Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology."

Visual Materials

A collection of glass plate negatives and prints collected by Major George W. Ingalls, a United States Indian agent, 1872-1875, who worked among Paiute and other tribes in the West, as well as among Great Plains, Great Basin and Eastern tribes relegated to Indian Territory. Many of the photographs were made in the early 1870s and include photographs by John K. Hillers made during expeditions with John Wesley Powell in 1873 and 1874; views of Indian children attending seminary schools; portraits of tribal leaders in western suits; missionaries and churches in Indian Territory. There are also portraits of Indian delegates in Washington D.C.; portraits taken at Council meetings; and early views of Reno, Nevada, from the early 1900s. The majority of tribes represented are from Great Basin and Great Plains regions, but there are also Southwest Indian photographs by A. C. Vroman; and views of Northeast and Southeast Indian tribe members living in Indian Territory or attending annual council meetings. Notably, there is a view of a skull showing an example of head flattening (Folder 33, Item1). Many of the original prints have ink captions in Ingalls' hand. Ingalls' captions often mention if the Indians pictured are Christians or otherwise "reformed." This collection is a mixture of original and copy prints and negatives, as well as a few pieces of ephemera and some manuscript photograph lists and possible lecture notes by Ingalls.

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Nez Perce

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Chief Joseph portraits; his village in Idaho; and scene of dedication of monument to him in Washington, 1905. Also one view of James Rhuben [Reuben?] with G. W. Ingalls. Photographers: Lee Moorhouse; unidentified.

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[large print] Cheyenne family group, with tent and pony hitched to travois. Print embossed "Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology."

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