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