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Comanche Indians

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 306 Collections and/or Records:

Comanches skinning Buffalo. Fort Sill, Oklahoma., Undated

 Item — Box Photo M-4, Item: 27
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Guthrie and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory and state. Photographs in the collection include scenes of businesses, the street car system, and of the Run of 1893, taken near Orlando, Oklahoma Territory. Also included are photographs of Wichita and Comanche Indians.

Dates: Undated

Comanches at a shrine (?) near Sneed’s Trading Store below Ft. Sill, Indian Territory, ca. 1889., circa 1889

 Item — Box Photo L-17, item: 26
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of Apache, Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa, Oto, and Wichita Indians taken at the Lenny and Sawyers Studio in Purcell, Indian Territory.

Dates: circa 1889

Comanches in a parade held at the Craterville Park, close to Cache, Oklahoma. From left to right, starting from the second man is: Hoy-Koy-Billy, Oscar Yellow Wolf (Peets-su-vah), unidentified, Che-bah-tah (an Apache married a Comanche lady, Pi-he), Pe-vo., Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-6, item: 24
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

Council at Medicine Creek Lodge with the Kiowa and Comanche., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-28, Item: 1804
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints, copy prints and glass plate negatives of the Apache, Comanche, Delaware, Temeculz, Kawaiisu, Creek, Umatilla, Chippewa, Paiute, Sioux, Oto, Choctaw, Pawnee, Osage, Ponca, Mohave, Kickapoo, Taos, Pueblo, Yuma, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Crow, Navajo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Sac and Fox, Kalispel, Kutenai, Flathead, Spokan, Attu, Quileute, Seminole, Wasco, Modoc, Shasta, Yakima, Shoshoni, Kiowa-Apache, Skitswish, Cheyenne, Shawnee, Nez Perce, Arapaho, Caddo, Wichita, Yakima, Makah, and Blackfoot Indians. Also includes images of mining, the oil industry, the military, agriculture, the range cattle industry, education, and transportation in Oklahoma Territory, Oklahoma state, and Indian Territory. Scenes of the towns of McAlester, Edmond, Alva, Weatherford, Pawhuska, Clairemore, Ponca City, Purcell, Duncan, Noble, Lexington, Shawnee, Beaver. Plainview, Lavern, Henryetta, Atoka, Tahlequah, Guthrie, Tishomingo, and Eufaula are included. In addition the first year of...
Dates: undated

Council of Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache chiefs with Lt. Brecher. [See also Phillips #720; and Kiowa County Historical Society #132]. Identified as 1. Quanah Parker, Comanche; 2. Ahpeatone, Kiowa; 3. Lone Wolf, Kiowa; 4. Koon-kah-zah-chy, Apache; 5. Ca-va-yo, Comanche; 6. Pah-ko-toquodle, Kiowa; 7. George Hunt, Kiowa (Interpreter); 8. Mo-ziz-zoom-dy, Apache; 9. Soontey, Apache; 10. Ar-rushe, Comanche; 11. Es-i-ti, Comanche; 12. San-ka-do-ta, Kiowa; 13. Otto Wells, Comanche (Interpreter); 14. Delos K. Lonewolf, Kiowa; 15. Tennyson Berry, Apache (Interpreter); 16. Pe-ah-coose, Comanche; 17. Eustace Merrick, Comanche; 18. Kline-ko-le, Apache; 19. Max Frizzlehead, Kiowa; 20. Ko-mah-ty, Kiowa; 21. Henry Tse-lee, Apache; 22. Lt. Stecker, Indian Agent; 23. John A. Hendricks, U.S. Indian Bureau Attorney., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-13, Item: 693
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints, copy prints and glass plate negatives of the Apache, Comanche, Delaware, Temeculz, Kawaiisu, Creek, Umatilla, Chippewa, Paiute, Sioux, Oto, Choctaw, Pawnee, Osage, Ponca, Mohave, Kickapoo, Taos, Pueblo, Yuma, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Crow, Navajo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Sac and Fox, Kalispel, Kutenai, Flathead, Spokan, Attu, Quileute, Seminole, Wasco, Modoc, Shasta, Yakima, Shoshoni, Kiowa-Apache, Skitswish, Cheyenne, Shawnee, Nez Perce, Arapaho, Caddo, Wichita, Yakima, Makah, and Blackfoot Indians. Also includes images of mining, the oil industry, the military, agriculture, the range cattle industry, education, and transportation in Oklahoma Territory, Oklahoma state, and Indian Territory. Scenes of the towns of McAlester, Edmond, Alva, Weatherford, Pawhuska, Clairemore, Ponca City, Purcell, Duncan, Noble, Lexington, Shawnee, Beaver. Plainview, Lavern, Henryetta, Atoka, Tahlequah, Guthrie, Tishomingo, and Eufaula are included. In addition the first year of...
Dates: undated

Cruis Portilla and family.  A Comanche sub-chief from whom Chief Quanah Parker stole his last wife, To-nic-ee.  Original print, 5x7.  Photographer’s board: Irwin, Chickasha, I.T., Undated

 Item — Box Photo W-2, item: 104
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of the towns of Guthrie, Edmond, El Reno, Oklahoma City, Perry, Kingfisher and Anadarko, Oklahoma. Scenes of farming, railroads, mining, outlaws, the U.S. Army, Boomers, the University of Oklahoma and businesses are included, along with those of Cheyenne, Shawnee, Wichita, Apache, Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Comanche, Kiowa, Pawnee, Osage, Wyandotte, Ponca, Iroquois, Seminole and Iowa Indians.

Dates: Undated

Cunningham Indian Photographs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1671
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Apache, Comanche, Sioux, Pawnee, Iowa, Osage, Oto, and Cheyenne-Arapaho Indians. Also included are scenes of Fort Apache, Arizona, Geronimo, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Quanah Parker's grave at Post Oak Cemetery.

Dates: 1890-1960

Dance held at the Cache Creek Mission, west of Apache, Oklahoma. 2 copies. Negative, 5x7., Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-6, item: 23
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

David Poafpybitty, from Comanche Christian., undated

 Item — Box Photo G-3, Item: 25
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of Kiowa and Comanche Indians and their churches and missions, and baptismal scenes, all taken in western Oklahoma.

Dates: undated

Deacons from three missions: Deyo, Post Oak and Walters., undated

 Item — Box Photo G-3, Item: 35
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of Kiowa and Comanche Indians and their churches and missions, and baptismal scenes, all taken in western Oklahoma.

Dates: undated

Doris Duke Indian Oral History Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-1931
Scope and Contents

FULL FINDING AID (PDF)

Oral history collection. Typescripts of interviews conducted with hundreds of American Indians in Oklahoma regarding the histories and cultures of their respective tribes. Included are accounts of Indian ceremonies, customs, social conditions, philosophies, and standards of living. Members of every tribe resident in Oklahoma were interviewed.

Dates: 1967-1972

Dr. and Mrs. Becker with four Indian men in front of Post Oak Mission., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-8, item: 22
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Quanah Parker and Comanche Indians, the Post Oak Cemetery, and a mission in Comanche County, Oklahoma. Also included are baptismal scenes and a meeting place of the Choctaw council.

Dates: undated

Father Aloysius Hitta, shown here with Comanche Albert Attacknie and W.B. McKowan, the Superintendent of the Kiowa Indian Area Indian Office., undated

 Item — Box Photo S-28, item: 53
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Blacka nd white copy prints of Sacred Heart Mission, Abbey and College, along with scenes of St. Gregory's College and Abbey, St. Benedict's Mission, and St. Patrick's Mission, all in Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of students, members of monastic orders, and construction of the schools and abbeys.

Dates: undated

Five Comanche men in Indian dress. Women in the background putting up tepees., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-25, Item: 1526
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints, copy prints and glass plate negatives of the Apache, Comanche, Delaware, Temeculz, Kawaiisu, Creek, Umatilla, Chippewa, Paiute, Sioux, Oto, Choctaw, Pawnee, Osage, Ponca, Mohave, Kickapoo, Taos, Pueblo, Yuma, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Crow, Navajo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Sac and Fox, Kalispel, Kutenai, Flathead, Spokan, Attu, Quileute, Seminole, Wasco, Modoc, Shasta, Yakima, Shoshoni, Kiowa-Apache, Skitswish, Cheyenne, Shawnee, Nez Perce, Arapaho, Caddo, Wichita, Yakima, Makah, and Blackfoot Indians. Also includes images of mining, the oil industry, the military, agriculture, the range cattle industry, education, and transportation in Oklahoma Territory, Oklahoma state, and Indian Territory. Scenes of the towns of McAlester, Edmond, Alva, Weatherford, Pawhuska, Clairemore, Ponca City, Purcell, Duncan, Noble, Lexington, Shawnee, Beaver. Plainview, Lavern, Henryetta, Atoka, Tahlequah, Guthrie, Tishomingo, and Eufaula are included. In addition the first year of...
Dates: undated

Five Indian chiefs from Oklahoma, representing three major Plains tribes: Comanche, Cheyenne and Kiowa. All wearing war bonnets., undated

 Item — Box Photo T-7A, item: 134
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Tonkawa, Oklahoma Territory and state, and scenes of farming, railroad construction, schools and businesses. Also includes scenes of Caddo, Omaha, Wichita, Cheyenne, Tonkawa, Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache Indians. Tonkawa Public Library Manuscripts Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Five Indian chiefs from Oklahoma, representing three major Plains tribes: Comanche, Cheyenne and Kiowa. All wearing war bonnets., undated

 Item — Box Photo T-7A, item: 135
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Tonkawa, Oklahoma Territory and state, and scenes of farming, railroad construction, schools and businesses. Also includes scenes of Caddo, Omaha, Wichita, Cheyenne, Tonkawa, Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache Indians. Tonkawa Public Library Manuscripts Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Five men with horses. Two of the men may be Comanche. Anadarko (Okla.) August 1901., 1901, Aug

 Item — Box Photo P-3, Item: 128
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints, copy prints and glass plate negatives of the Apache, Comanche, Delaware, Temeculz, Kawaiisu, Creek, Umatilla, Chippewa, Paiute, Sioux, Oto, Choctaw, Pawnee, Osage, Ponca, Mohave, Kickapoo, Taos, Pueblo, Yuma, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Crow, Navajo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Sac and Fox, Kalispel, Kutenai, Flathead, Spokan, Attu, Quileute, Seminole, Wasco, Modoc, Shasta, Yakima, Shoshoni, Kiowa-Apache, Skitswish, Cheyenne, Shawnee, Nez Perce, Arapaho, Caddo, Wichita, Yakima, Makah, and Blackfoot Indians. Also includes images of mining, the oil industry, the military, agriculture, the range cattle industry, education, and transportation in Oklahoma Territory, Oklahoma state, and Indian Territory. Scenes of the towns of McAlester, Edmond, Alva, Weatherford, Pawhuska, Clairemore, Ponca City, Purcell, Duncan, Noble, Lexington, Shawnee, Beaver. Plainview, Lavern, Henryetta, Atoka, Tahlequah, Guthrie, Tishomingo, and Eufaula are included. In addition the first year of...
Dates: 1901; Aug

Four boys or students at the Cache Creek Mission, west of Apache, Oklahoma. Comanche boy on right is Nat Perkaquanard., Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-6, item: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

Four Comanche Indians. No negative, undated

 Item — Item Photo H-19, item: 67
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of the Hume family, Anadarko, Indian Territory and the University of Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of Kiowa, Wichita, Caddo, Mohave, Sioux, Comanche and Apache Indians. Carlton Ross Hume Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Four photos of Comanche women. Upper left: Ada Pueblo. Upper right: Mrs. Oscar Yellowwolf., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-34b, Item: 3261
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints, copy prints and glass plate negatives of the Apache, Comanche, Delaware, Temeculz, Kawaiisu, Creek, Umatilla, Chippewa, Paiute, Sioux, Oto, Choctaw, Pawnee, Osage, Ponca, Mohave, Kickapoo, Taos, Pueblo, Yuma, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Crow, Navajo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Sac and Fox, Kalispel, Kutenai, Flathead, Spokan, Attu, Quileute, Seminole, Wasco, Modoc, Shasta, Yakima, Shoshoni, Kiowa-Apache, Skitswish, Cheyenne, Shawnee, Nez Perce, Arapaho, Caddo, Wichita, Yakima, Makah, and Blackfoot Indians. Also includes images of mining, the oil industry, the military, agriculture, the range cattle industry, education, and transportation in Oklahoma Territory, Oklahoma state, and Indian Territory. Scenes of the towns of McAlester, Edmond, Alva, Weatherford, Pawhuska, Clairemore, Ponca City, Purcell, Duncan, Noble, Lexington, Shawnee, Beaver. Plainview, Lavern, Henryetta, Atoka, Tahlequah, Guthrie, Tishomingo, and Eufaula are included. In addition the first year of...
Dates: undated

Frank Tate & Hugh Eckwandnob, Comanches., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-17, Item: 919
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints, copy prints and glass plate negatives of the Apache, Comanche, Delaware, Temeculz, Kawaiisu, Creek, Umatilla, Chippewa, Paiute, Sioux, Oto, Choctaw, Pawnee, Osage, Ponca, Mohave, Kickapoo, Taos, Pueblo, Yuma, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Crow, Navajo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Sac and Fox, Kalispel, Kutenai, Flathead, Spokan, Attu, Quileute, Seminole, Wasco, Modoc, Shasta, Yakima, Shoshoni, Kiowa-Apache, Skitswish, Cheyenne, Shawnee, Nez Perce, Arapaho, Caddo, Wichita, Yakima, Makah, and Blackfoot Indians. Also includes images of mining, the oil industry, the military, agriculture, the range cattle industry, education, and transportation in Oklahoma Territory, Oklahoma state, and Indian Territory. Scenes of the towns of McAlester, Edmond, Alva, Weatherford, Pawhuska, Clairemore, Ponca City, Purcell, Duncan, Noble, Lexington, Shawnee, Beaver. Plainview, Lavern, Henryetta, Atoka, Tahlequah, Guthrie, Tishomingo, and Eufaula are included. In addition the first year of...
Dates: undated

Frank Chicovah, brother of Num-in-nee, posing on a horse. He is the father of Felix Koweno. His sister is Tisarey (meaning perfume) and brother is Poahway. Negative, 5x7., Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-6, item: 26
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

Freida Harry with cradle board., undated

 Item — Box Photo G-3, Item: 24
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of Kiowa and Comanche Indians and their churches and missions, and baptismal scenes, all taken in western Oklahoma.

Dates: undated

Grandma Roee, the oldest Comanche Native American woman in the tribe, sitting in front of a traditional round house., undated

 Item — Box Photo G-7, item: 29
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of Comanche Indians, Red Stone Baptist Mission, Fort Sill Indian School, and members of the Given family. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: undated

Grey Leggings, Comanche (Esa-tou-yett, Asa-Toyeh), wearing breastplate and holding a gun. Western Oklahoma, 1869 – 1874. Photographer – William Soule. Negative 5x7., 1869-1874

 Item — Box Photo S-19, item: 31
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Kiowa-Apache, Comanche, Arapaho, Wichita, Caddo, Cheyenne, and Kiowa Indians.

Dates: 1869-1874

Group of mostly Comanche parents and relatives at Cache Creek Mission, west of Apache, Oklahoma., Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-6, item: 15
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

Group picture of Indian boys or students at the Cache Creek Mission, west of Apache, Oklahoma. Dormitory in the background. Comanche boy seated on the front row, center, is John Pahdopony. Comanche boy on extreme right, partially hidden by his hat is Nat Perkaquanard., Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-6, item: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

Group picture of Indian boys or students at the Cache Creek Mission, west of Apache, Oklahoma. Standing on the left is John Pahdopony., Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-6, item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

Group picture of young Indian men, mostly Comanches, taken at Cache Creek Mission, west of Apache, Oklahoma. Front Row, center, legs crossed is Albert Attocknie. To-Hene is the older man shown a magazine by a young man behind him., Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-6, item: 17
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated