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Indians of North America -- Clothing

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 311 Collections and/or Records:

Big Tree (A’do-eette), Kiowa chief, wearing breastplate. Western Oklahoma, 1869 – 1874. Photographer – William Soule. Negative 5x7. Later became a deacon, Rainy Mt. Mission Church., 1869-1874

 Item — Box Photo S-19, item: 42
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

Big Tree’s sister, wearing beaded and fringed dress. Western Oklahoma, 1869 – 1874. Photographer – William Soule. Negative 5x7., 1869-1874

 Item — Box Photo S-19A, item: 60
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

Birdshield, Blackfoot, in native dress. 1927. Photographer – Hiteman. Original print, 8x10. Outsized., 1927

 Item — Oversize box Photo Room 9A, item: 25
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Arikara, Apache, Arapaho, Assiniboin, Blackfoot, Cayuse, Comanche, Crow, Cherokee, Cayuga, Chinook, Caddo, Choctaw, Chippewa, Cheyenne, Delaware, Hidatsa, Hopi, Iowa, Kaw, Kickapoo, Kichai, Kiowa, Klamath, Laguna, Moki, Modoc, Makah, Mandan, Makah, Mandan, Miami, Missouri, Nez Perce, Onadaga, Omaha, Oto, Osage, Paiute, Puyallup, Pawnee, Peoria, Papago, Potawatomi, Pueblo, Ponca, Quapaw, Quinault, Sac and Fox, Salish, Seminole, Seneca, Shawnee, Sioux, Shoshoni, Tuscarora, Umatilla, Ute, Walla Walla, Winnebago, Wyandotte, Yakima, Yuma, Yuchi, and Zuni Indians. George Rainey Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1927

Black and white lithograph of “A New Mexican Indians Woman.” (1848). A three-quarters profile portrait, seated. From Emory-Reconnaissance, Ft. Leavenworth to San Diego. , 1848

 Item — Box Photo F-92A, item: 73
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1848

Black and white lithograph of “Old Bark’s Son Ah-Mah-Nah-Co and Squaw.” (1848). Depicts Native American man and woman seated on the ground. Woman is cooking in a kettle hanging over a fire. Indians, tepees in background. From Abert’s Examination of New Mexico.   , 1848

 Item — Box Photo F-92A, item: 82
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1848

Black and white steel engraving of an “Indian Woman Procuring Fuel.” (1853). Shows woman with wood bundle and baby on her back. Canoe in foreground. By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes. , 1853

 Item — Box Photo F-92B, item: 163
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1853

Black and white steel engraving of “Female Mode of Sitting.” (1853). Shows three sitting in front of a dwellings. By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes. , 1853

 Item — Box Photo F-92B, item: 187
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1853

Black and white steel engraving of “Mandan Women.” (c1850). Shows several women wearing robes-one wears the sacred white buffalo robe. By C. Bodmer. Source Unknown. , 1850

 Item — Box Photo F-92A, item: 103
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1850

Black and white steel engraving of “Red Jacket-Chief of the Senecas.” (1853). Excellent, full-length seated portrait of this famous chief. By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes. , 1853

 Item — Box Photo F-92B, item: 175
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1853

Black and white steel engraving of “Stu-mick-o-sucks, the Buffalo’s Back Fat.” (1841). A first edition showing seated full length portrait wearing fringed Indian costume and holding a wooden pipe. By G. Catlin from Catlin’s Letter and Notes.  , 1841

 Item — Box Photo F-92A, item: 99
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1841

Black and white steel engravings (2) of “A Chippewa Belle in Costume” and a “Chippewa Female Snow-Shoe.” (1856). Author unknown. From Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes.  , 1856

 Item — Box Photo F-92B, item: 171
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1856

Black Hawk, Kiowa-Apache wearing long chain earrings, a peace medal and bells. Western Oklahoma, 1869 – 1874. Photographer – William Soule. Negative 5x7., 1869-1874

 Item — Box Photo S-19, item: 5
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

Buffalo dance at San Ildefonso’s feast day., undated

 Item — Box Photo M-16A, item: 488
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Navajo, Kiowa, Seminole, Pueblo, Cherokee, and Apache Indians. Also included are photographs of baskets from the Aleut, Apache, Attu, Cahuilla, Chemehuevi, Cheyenne, Chippewa, Clallam, Eskimo, Delaware, Havasupai, Haida, Hupa, Klikitat, Kickapoo, Karok, Klamath, Lillooet, Maidu, Makah, Modoc, Mono, Navajo, Nez Perce, Nootka, Paiute, Papago, Penobscot, Pima, Pomo, Pueblo, Hopi, Quinault, Seneca, Shoshoni, Tlingit, Ntlakyapamuk, Umatilla, Wailaki, Wasco, Washo, Winnebago, and Yokut tribes. The collection also contains views of archaeological work in the southwest United States, including Oklahoma City, Fort Sill, Okeene, Anadarko, Idabel, and Ardmore, Oklahoma; San Ildefonso, Santa Fe and Chimayo, New Mexico; and San Antonio, Texas. Alice Marriott Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

C – Indian couple with men sitting, who is dressed in pioneer clothing (lower right), undated

 Item — Box Photo S-28, item: 101C
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

Cache Creek Mission School children, Undated

 Item — Box Photo W-14, Item: 22
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Indians along with scenes of the town of Apache, Oklahoma and of nearby Cache Creek Mission. D.C. Ward Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated

Camp of three Cheyenne lodges in western Oklahoma. Several wagons are shown as well as a partially covered plow., Undated

 Item — Box Photo F-24, item: 89
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints and glass plate negatives, taken by Andrew Alexander Forbes. Includes scenes of the range cattle industry in western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory, sodhouses, railroad construction, the United States Army, buffalo, andalso of Sac and Fox and Cheyenne Indians.

Dates: Undated

Charles Nesbitt, Margôt Nesbitt, and Emil W. Lenders Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1407
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of the employees and performances of the Pawnee Bill and the 101 Wild West Shows. The collection includes scenes of cowboy and cowgirl performers, as well as those of Indian performers from the Pawnee, Sac and Fox, Potawatomi, Osage, Crow, Sioux, Blackfoot, Comanche, Ponca, Cheyenne, Arapaho and Kickapoo tribes.

Dates: 1900-1925

Cheyenne boy wearing breastplate. Western Oklahoma, 1869 – 1874. Photographer – William Soule. Negative 5x7., 1869-1874

 Item — Box Photo S-19, item: 24
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

Cheyenne Indians dressed for a war dance., undated

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

Black and white original prints of Sac and Fox, Ponca, Comanche, Oto, and Cheyenne Indians.

Dates: undated

Cheyenne woman with dress decorated with elk teeth. She is also wearing a neckband and beaded moccasins. Western Oklahoma, 1869 – 1874. Photographer – William Soule. Negative 5x7., 1869-1874

 Item — Box Photo S-19, item: 28
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

Chief Billy Bowlegs (Halpatter-Micco), Seminole, in native dress. Wears headdress, pendants, and shoulder sash. Studio portrait. BAE print, 4x6., undated

 Item — Box Photo R-10, item: 101
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Arikara, Apache, Arapaho, Assiniboin, Blackfoot, Cayuse, Comanche, Crow, Cherokee, Cayuga, Chinook, Caddo, Choctaw, Chippewa, Cheyenne, Delaware, Hidatsa, Hopi, Iowa, Kaw, Kickapoo, Kichai, Kiowa, Klamath, Laguna, Moki, Modoc, Makah, Mandan, Makah, Mandan, Miami, Missouri, Nez Perce, Onadaga, Omaha, Oto, Osage, Paiute, Puyallup, Pawnee, Peoria, Papago, Potawatomi, Pueblo, Ponca, Quapaw, Quinault, Sac and Fox, Salish, Seminole, Seneca, Shawnee, Sioux, Shoshoni, Tuscarora, Umatilla, Ute, Walla Walla, Winnebago, Wyandotte, Yakima, Yuma, Yuchi, and Zuni Indians. George Rainey Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Close-up of Indians dancing. Appear to be native dress., Undated

 Item — Box Photo T-1, item: 39
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original glass plate negatives and copy prints of Caddo, Hopi, Crow and Cheyenne Indians.

Dates: Undated

Close-up view of several Indians in the middle of a ceremonial dance. In tribal dress., Undated

 Item — Box Photo T-1, item: 91
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original glass plate negatives and copy prints of Caddo, Hopi, Crow and Cheyenne Indians.

Dates: Undated

Close-ups of Matachinas. Faces covered., undated

 Item — Box Photo M-16A, item: 496
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Navajo, Kiowa, Seminole, Pueblo, Cherokee, and Apache Indians. Also included are photographs of baskets from the Aleut, Apache, Attu, Cahuilla, Chemehuevi, Cheyenne, Chippewa, Clallam, Eskimo, Delaware, Havasupai, Haida, Hupa, Klikitat, Kickapoo, Karok, Klamath, Lillooet, Maidu, Makah, Modoc, Mono, Navajo, Nez Perce, Nootka, Paiute, Papago, Penobscot, Pima, Pomo, Pueblo, Hopi, Quinault, Seneca, Shoshoni, Tlingit, Ntlakyapamuk, Umatilla, Wailaki, Wasco, Washo, Winnebago, and Yokut tribes. The collection also contains views of archaeological work in the southwest United States, including Oklahoma City, Fort Sill, Okeene, Anadarko, Idabel, and Ardmore, Oklahoma; San Ildefonso, Santa Fe and Chimayo, New Mexico; and San Antonio, Texas. Alice Marriott Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Colored chromolithograph of “Navajo Costume.” (1850). Shows warrior in costume of a Spanish nature holding a shield. By R.H. Kern from Simpson’s Navajo Journal.  , 1850

 Item — Box Photo F-92, item: 29
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1850

Colored chromolithograph of “Tonto Apache-White Mountain Reservation, Arizona, 1891.” ½ Length portrait of the Indian wearing a turban with feather. By Julian Scott from Indians Taxed (11th Census). Sackett & Wihelms Litho. Co., New York.  , 1891

 Item — Box Photo F-92B, item: 204
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1891

Colored chromolithograph of “Turkey Dance-Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico” (1894). Indians dressed in colorful costumes. By P. Moran from Indians Taxed (11th Census).  , 1894

 Item — Box Photo F-92, item: 48
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1894

Colored chromolithograph of “You-pel-lay, or the Green Corn Dance of the Jemez Indians. Aug. 19.” By R.H. Kern from Simpson’s Navajo Journal.  , undated

 Item — Box Photo F-92, item: 49
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: undated

Colored heliotype of “Sayatasha and Hututu (Rain Priests) and Two Yamuhakto (Warriors).” (1904). Excellent view of colorful Rain Dance costumes. By W.M. Sawyer from B.A.E 23rd Annual Report.  , 1904

 Item — Box Photo F-92A, item: 72
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1904