Collection Contents

Photographs 1-12

Osage scouts employed by Gen. Alfred T. Sully (Lt. Col. 3rd Infantry), campaign of 1867-1868.

Yellow Bear, the most intelligent and soldierly Indian chief under Little Raven—Kiowa. [(Nye): Yellow Bear was an Arapahoe]

Indian encampment between Camp Supply and the Llano Estacado (Staked Plains) of Texas, 1868. [Arapahoe]

A rare and beautiful view taken near the Canadian River, I.T. [Indian Territory], fall of 1868 of an Indian encampment. [(Belous): Kiowa camp near the Canadian River, 1869. Kicking Bird died here in 1875.]

Tosh-a-way, a Comanche chief. 1868. [(Belous): Tosh-a-wah (Toshaway, Tosawi, Silver Brooch). First chief of the Penateka Comanches and known for his peaceful attitude.]

Quo-opah, or “Lone Wolf,” Kiowa chief. *(Nye): Gui-pah-go]

Tar-low, a Wichita Indian child. Son of a Wichita chief. 1868. [(Belous): Lone Bear (Tar-lo): dressed as a Kiowa boy]

Asa-ton-yeh, a Comanche chief. 1868. [(Nye): Asa-Toyet. He was an “agency” Indian, authorized to interact with Indian tribes on behalf of the U.S. government; (Belous): Esa-tou-yett (Asa- Toyeh, Grey Leggings)]

Pai-talyi, or “Son-of-the-Sun”. Borrowed the full dress coat of Maj. Gen. W. S. Hancock, 1867, to have his photo taken in. [Kiowa]

Wap-pah, Morn-me, and Qua-moth-kee. Comanche prisoners captured on the Staked Plains of Texas near Adobe Walls in 1868.

Arapahoe camp near Camp Supply, Indian Territory. 1869. [(Belous): Indian encampment, 1868]

Cheyenne brave, his squaw, and papoose. View taken in the Bow-and-Arrow period of the Western Plains, 1868.

Photographs 13-25

How the Cheyenne Indians dried strips of buffalo meat for winter use, 1867. [(Belous): Cheyenne camp, 1867]

Walk-u-bella, an Arapahoe chief and members of his band, 1868. [(Belous): Four Braves. Probably at Camp Supply]

An Indian family of three: brave, squaw, and child, 1868.

Between the 14th and 25th of September 1868. On the Arickaree fork of the Republican River, Kansas and Colorado. Lieut. Fred H. Beecher, 3rd U.S. Infantry and Surgeon John S. Morers were killed, also four citizen scouts killed. [Photo is actually of unnamed Native American scout]

A dismantled Indian teepee [tipi], 1868. [(Belouse): Indian camp, 1869]

Arapahoe chief with full dress uniform hat as worn by the 3rd U.S. Infantry, with squaw and papoose, 1868.

Three Wichita squaws, Indian Territory, 1868. [Left to right: Nawatry, Dudu, Ske-Zitz]

Stumbling Bear, a Kiowa chief wearing Major General Winfield Scott Hancock’s full dress coat and shoulder straps, 1867. [Taken near Fort Dodge, Kansas]. [(Nye): Set-imkia]

Santank [Satank], medicine man of the noted chief Satana, Kiowa war chief, and Big Tree, leaders in the Indian campaign of 1867-1868. [(Nye): Set-angya (Sitting Bear)]

A Wichita Indian belle, 1868. [Named Nawatry]

Indian belle, no. 2, 1868.

Plains Indian. Fred Miller, photographer. [Reade mistakenly noted the subject was a Chiricahua Native American]

Crow Indians of northern Montana territory. Fred Miller, photographer.