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Indians of North America -- Clothing

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 311 Collections and/or Records:

Front view of man wearing Indian (perhaps Kickapoo) dress. Studio portrait. Negative, 5x7., undated

 Item — Box Photo G-13, item: 14
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original and copy prints of Kickapoo Indians from Kansas, Oklahoma, and Mexico, as well as Kickapoo bark lodges.

Dates: undated

George Bates (Washington) Missouri. Chest bare except for the breastplate and necklace. Wearing arm bands, feather in hair. Studio portrait. BAE print, 6x8., undated

 Item — Box Photo R-10, item: 64
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

George Lynn Cross Photograph Collection

 Collection — Box Photo C-14
Identifier: WHC-P-1558
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Jack Red Claw and Good Eagle. George Lynn Cross Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1890

Geronimo, an Apache Chief, in Indian dress. (Signed on back of original photo, “Mrs. C.A. Cleveland”)., undated

 Item — Box Photo H-7, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory and state, including photographs of businesses, the railroad depot, Geronimo, parades, and street scenes. Rollin Hutchins Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Gertrude Thomas, one-half Chickasaw, wearing buckskin dress with fringe and decorated with elk teeth.  Studio portrait.  Original print, 5x7.  Photographer’s board: Irwin, Chickasha, I.T., Undated

 Item — Box Photo W-2A, item: 137
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

“Ghost Mask” Cherokee Reservation. Cherokee, NC, undated

 Item — Box Photo M-16C, item: 725
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

Granny Houston, Cherokee, in later years. Original. Purcell, Indian Territory., undated

 Item — Box Photo L-17, item: 7
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: 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 including Pawnee Bill in frontiersmen’s dress, Native American in full costume, Rev. J.W.E. Airey, and unidentified man in frontiersman’s dress., undated

 Item — Box Photo L-13, item: 150
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Gordon W. Lillie (Pawnee Bill), his family, firends, and Wild West Shows. Included are photographs of Tom Mix, William S. Hart, Will Rogers, Buffalo Bill Cody, along with a panorama of Gordon W. Lillie and Pawnee Indians travelling to President Herbert Hoover's inauguration. Gordon William Lillie Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Group of Indian men wearing coin clothes – perhaps dancers dressed for ceremony., Undated

 Item — Box Photo T-1, item: 89
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

Group of Indian women busy on the bank of a river. Crow Indian., Undated

 Item — Box Photo T-1, item: 15
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

Group of Indians and whites appear to be camped in a field. “Houses” or small shelters appear in background, Indian woman and children face camera in foreground., Undated

 Item — Box Photo T-1, item: 69
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

Group of Indians gathered in the midst of what appears to be a reservation. This could be a different view of #23, #24., Undated

 Item — Box Photo T-1, item: 25
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

Group of Indians – men, women, and children leaning against wall of adobe(?) building. Shallow wicker bowls appear periodically between the people., Undated

 Item — Box Photo T-1, item: 70
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

Group of Indians sitting under umbrellas in a grove of trees. Men, women, and children., Undated

 Item — Box Photo T-1, item: 33
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

Group of Native Americans: Sun Chief, Receiving Great Thought, Lone Chief, Brother of Big Strike Ax, Big Strike Ax father of Julius Caesar. Large, old photograph., undated

 Item — Box Photo L-14A, item: 237
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Gordon W. Lillie (Pawnee Bill), his family, firends, and Wild West Shows. Included are photographs of Tom Mix, William S. Hart, Will Rogers, Buffalo Bill Cody, along with a panorama of Gordon W. Lillie and Pawnee Indians travelling to President Herbert Hoover's inauguration. Gordon William Lillie Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Group picture including Mr. and Mrs. Bert Bell, Ed Kents, Diamond Dick, Chief Little Bear and Chief crazy horse. Native Americans in full regalia., undated

 Item — Box Photo L-14A, item: 219
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Gordon W. Lillie (Pawnee Bill), his family, firends, and Wild West Shows. Included are photographs of Tom Mix, William S. Hart, Will Rogers, Buffalo Bill Cody, along with a panorama of Gordon W. Lillie and Pawnee Indians travelling to President Herbert Hoover's inauguration. Gordon William Lillie Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Heap Wolves (probably Esa-dowa), Caddo or Wichita. Wearing breastplate and chains. Killed by the Osages in 1872.Western Oklahoma, 1869 – 1874. Photographer – William Soule. Negative 5x7., 1869-1874

 Item — Box Photo S-19, item: 33
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

Ho-wear, a Yapparika Comanche chief, with chains hanging from two tiny braids.  Western Oklahoma, 1869 – 1874. Photographer – William Soule. Negative 5x7., 1869-1874

 Item — Box Photo S-19, item: 29
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

Hopi dancers at Grand Canyon, undated

 Item — Box Photo M-16A, item: 511
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

Horseback, Comanche (Tuh-huh-yet, Nau-qua-hip, Champion Rider). Principal civil chief of the Noconee Comanches, Holding beaded pouch. Western Oklahoma, 1869 – 1874. Photographer – William Soule. Negative 5x7., 1869-1874

 Item — Box Photo S-19, item: 30
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

Hunting drill by Seminole Indian girls wearing headdresses and holding bows and arrows. Emahaka Mission School, Wewoka, Indian Territory. 1 copy. Negative 5x7., undated

 Item — Box Photo S-26, item: 72
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Seminole Indians, railroads, oil fields, schools, cotton gins, along with scenes of Weber City, Maud, Seminole, and Wewoka, Indian Territory and Oklahoma.

Dates: undated

Ina Badger Photograph Collection

 Collection — Box Photo B-5
Identifier: WHC-P-1502
Scope and Contents

Black and white original and copy prints of a group of cowboys and an Indian camp scene. Ina Badger Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: unknown

Indian baby., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-19, Item: 1050
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

Indian Boy., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-18, Item: 1018
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

Indian boy., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-18, Item: 993
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

Indian boy in traditional clothes holding a pistol and wearing a holster.  His hair is braided and wrapped in fur; wearing a fringed buckskin coat, standing in front of an Indian print blanket hung on a wall.  Original print, 4x5.  Photographer’s board. (Missing)., Undated

 Item — Box Photo W-2A, item: 168
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

Indian boy wearing a war bonnet. (Glass plate negative), undated

 Item — Box Photo P-23, Item: 1381
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

Indian boy wearing bone breast plate., undated

 Item — Box Photo T-7A, item: 120
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

Indian buckskin dress. Neg., undated

 Item — Box Photo M-10, Item: 30
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Back and white original and copy prints of Watonga, Oklahoma, along with scenes of Cheyenne, Arapaho, Caddo and Creek Indians. William Houston Munger Manuscripts Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated