Photograph album of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians

Description

Title: Photograph album of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians
Published / Created: ca. 1890.
Abstract: Photographs show groups of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians posed in front of tipis, tents, and trees, most likely in what is now Oklahoma. A few wear western clothing, and a white man and boy appear in some images. Individuals pictured include Mrs. Scabby Bull, Ethel Black Wolf, Rabbit Run, Wolf Chase, Coal A Fire, Strik-em-First, Singing Man, Jay Gould, Big Timber, and Myrtle Bad Man, among others. Two views of the Arapaho camp and one of the Cheyenne camp are taken from a distance. The album also contains two photographs of Niagara Falls
Description: Photographer unidentified.
Title devised by cataloger.
Manuscript captions throughout.
Provenance: Purchased from Almagre Books on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2003.
Extent: 1 album (24 photographic prints) : 14 x 18 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Portraits
Photograph albums
Photographic prints
Material: b & w ;
Subject (Geographic): Oklahoma
Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation (Okla.)
Niagara Falls (N.Y.)
Subject (Name): Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma
Subject (Topic): Arapaho Indians
Cheyenne Indians
Indian reservations
Indians of North America
Tipis
Subjects: Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma > Pictorial works
Arapaho Indians > Portraits
Cheyenne Indians > Portraits
Indian reservations > Oklahoma > Pictorial works
Indians of North America > Pictorial works
Tipis > Pictorial works
Oklahoma > Pictorial works
Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation (Okla.) > Pictorial works
Niagara Falls (N.Y.) > Pictorial works

Access: Public
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Citation: Photograph Album of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.