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Indian women -- North America

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 72 Collections and/or Records:

A Cattaraugus Indian woman. No Neg., undated

 Item — Box Photo M-10, Item: 15
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

A Hopi Indian woman wearing baskets. Grand Canyon, AZ. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company photograph. Original print, 6x8., undated

 Item — Box Photo R-10, item: 45
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

An Indian woman wearing high-buttoned shoes., undated

 Item — Box Photo T-6A, item: 85
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

Ann Ross, a Cherokee girl, standing on the bank of a river. She is probably the direct descendent of Chief John Ross. Tahlequah, Okla. Original print, 5x8., undated

 Item — Box Photo R-10, item: 32
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

Annie Lee Coosewoon, Comanche in native dress., undated

 Item — Box Photo G-3, Item: 2
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

Apache girls, three posed for studio portrait. All three are wearing flowered skirts, belts, earrings, and blankets. Original. Purcell, Indian Territory., undated

 Item — Box Photo L-17, item: 4
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

Apache woman and papoose. Woman is wrapped in plaid blanket. Original. Purcell, Indian Territory., undated

 Item — Box Photo L-17, item: 3
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

Apache women standing on a porch eating watermelon.  This has been identified as issue day.  There are some sacks lying on the porch which could be filled w/provisions.  Photo by Lenny and Sawyer, Purcell, Indian Territory., undated

 Item — Box Photo C-15, Item: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of the range cattle industry in Wyoming and bauxite mining in Arkansas, along with photographs of Sioux, Apache, and Wichita Indians. The collection also includes a photograph of Covey's drawing of the Cherokee Strip Opening in 1893. Arthur S. Covey Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Bark house at the home of Marie Pewamo on the Kickapoo Reservation, 1936. Copy from the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas. Negative, 5x7., 1936

 Item — Box Photo G-13, item: 24
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: 1936

Betsy Boston, Puyallup, sitting beside a stream. Tacoma, Wash. Photographer – French. State Historical Society, Tacoma, Washington. Original print, 4x7. Photographer’s board., undated

 Item — Box Photo R-10, item: 94
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

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 steel engraving “Cleaning Grass Seed, San Joaquin Valley, Calif.” (1856). Shows three women with a child using sifts to clean the seeds. Wickiups seen in background. By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes. , 1856

 Item — Box Photo F-92B, item: 151
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 and white steel engraving “Gathering Grass Seed.” (1856). Shows three bare-breasted women wearing grass skirts putting grass seed into cone-shaped baskets. By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes. , 1856

 Item — Box Photo F-92B, item: 149
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 and white steel engraving of a “Menstrual Lodge.” (1856). Shows girl sitting inside the lodge. By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes. , 1856

 Item — Box Photo F-92B, item: 180
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 and white steel engraving of an “Indian Sugar Camp.” (1853). Shows women performing all of the work involved in making sugar. By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes. , 1853

 Item — Box Photo F-92B, item: 190
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 an “Indian Woman Dressing a Buffalo Skin.” (1853). In background shows an Indian male seated by a tepee which contains some almost completely faded-out drawings. By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes.  , 1853

 Item — Box Photo F-92A, item: 130
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 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 “Indian Woman Playing the Game of Plum Stones.” (1853). Two tepees seen in background. By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes. , 1853

 Item — Box Photo F-92B, item: 143
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 “Transporting Water and Grass Seed, Valley of San Joaquin, Calif.” (1856). Shows two bare-breasted women wearing grass skirts-one carries a cone-shaped basket of grass seed on her back and the other has a bowl of water on her head. By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes. , 1856

 Item — Box Photo F-92B, item: 150
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

Carrie LeFlore Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: WHC-M-1203
Scope and Contents

FULL FINDING AID (PDF)

Personal correspondence (1886-1892) of Carrie LeFlore, wife of Basil LeFlore, governor of the Choctaw Nation, with friends and family, along with expressions of condolence on the death of her husband.

Dates: 1886-1892

Cattaraugus Indian woman. No Neg., undated

 Item — Box Photo M-10, Item: 17
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

Cheyenne woman with child. Mattie Bald Eagle. Neg., undated

 Item — Box Photo M-10, Item: 27
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

Colored chromolithograph of “Poobitcie-Moqui Girl of Pueblo of Sichumnavi, Arizona.” (1889) ½ length portrait of Hopi maiden showing fancy hairdo and much Indian jewelry. By Julian Scott from Indians Taxed (11th Census). , 1889

 Item — Box Photo F-92, item: 28
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: 1889

Colored chromolithograph of “Wharte, the Industrious Woman-Wife of the Governor of Jemez. Aug. 20.” (1850). Full portrait in colorful dress standing beside large decorated pot. By R.H. Kern from Simpson’s Navajo Journal. , 1850

 Item — Box Photo F-92, item: 43
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 lithograph of two bare-breasted “Pima Women” carrying water and salt in large containers on their heads (1857). By Arthur Schott from Emory-U.S. & Mexican Boundary Survey. , 1857

 Item — Box Photo F-92, item: 18
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: 1857

Colored lithograph of two robed “Papagos” women picking cactus fruit with long sticks. (1857). By Arthur Schott from Emory-U.S. & Mexican Boundary Survey , 1857

 Item — Box Photo F-92, item: 15
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: 1857

Cora Carruth, Wichita girl. Wearing earrings, high-topped moccasins, and blanket. Also has wedding ring, and other jewelry on hands. Original. Purcell, Indian Territory,, undated

 Item — Box Photo L-17, item: 16
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

Elderly Native American woman in a leather shirt and pleated skirt standing in front of sheep., Undated

 Item — Box Photo H-6, item: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of American Indians, including Caddo, Cheyenne, Hopi, Kiowa, Menominee, Navajo, Pueblo, and Sioux; airplanes; baseball players; Belle Starr; businesses; cowboys; the land run of 1889; mining operations in Nome, Alaska; mining; schools; soldiers; street scenes; tornado damage in Duke, Oklahoma; the Anadarko Indian Fair in Anadarko, Oklahoma; Baxter, Hawarden, and Smithland, Iowa; Fort Riley, Kansas; Ellsworth, Minnesota; Cameron, Missouri; and Fort Gibson, Fort Sill, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated