Visual Materials

Navajo

Description: Includes copy prints of Navajo chief Manuelito, his wife, Juanita, and son, Segundo, by Charles M. Bell [see original prints in Huntington Library collection photCL 190]; reproduction photograph of Chief Kitoni.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
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.

Cheyenne

Visual Materials

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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Winnebago

Visual Materials

Studio portraits of Winneshiek, Black Hawk and John Michael St. Cyr by Charles M. Bell, Washington D.C., 1875.

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Crow

Visual Materials

Studio portraits and candid photographs of families, dances and school children, mostly in Montana. Views of Indians and whites at Baptist Mission. Two photographs of Crow delegates in Washington D.C. by Charles M. Bell. People identified: Plenty Coups; Bull Tail, White Mouth and families; Shows-a-Fish and Theodore White Mouth; White Arm and family; Rebecca Flathead; Pretty Shell and Pretty Beads (mother and child); Good Eye. Photographers: Charles M. Bell; Huffman, Montana; unidentified.

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Partial list of photographs with photographer's names (2 pages) – manuscript list by G. W. Ingalls

Visual Materials

Brief descriptions, some with photographer's names noted --"Hillers," "Armstrong," "Beale" – which research shows is a misspelling for photographer Charles M. Bell.

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Arapaho

Visual Materials

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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Chippewa/Ojibwa

Visual Materials

Studio portraits of members of Ojibwa Delegation to Washington D.C., ca. 1880. Photographs attributed to Charles M. Bell. People identified: [Identifications and spellings from Smithsonian image database] Edawigijig; Kis-ki-ta-wag; Wadwaiasoug; Akewainzee; Oshawashkogijig; Nijogijig (Two Days); Oshoga (O-sho-ga); Wasigwanabi; Ogimagijig; Naw-gaw-nab.

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