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Pawnee

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

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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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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Creek

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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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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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Kiowa

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Kiowa Indians who became Baptist Church deacons; families on porch of new house; Indians at churches in Oklahoma; tepees; dwellings; encampments; woman painting history on buffalo robe. People identified: Deacon Podelly; Chief Big Tree; Pi-tal-ye (Sun Boy); Deacon Wind; Deacon Sinco; Samuel Akutone. Photographers/publishers: John K. Hillers; Russell (Anadarko, OK); Hedrick (Taloga, OK); unidentified.

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Caddo

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Temporary camp of Chief "George Washington," showing him with two other Indian men and a white man standing under a canvas shelter, ca. 1875. Photograph by John K. Hillers.

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