Portraits of Native Americans made by Charles Milton Bell in his Washington, DC studio. Depicted individuals include Red Cloud, Oglala; Spotted Tail, Brule; Quanah Parker, Comanche; Nawat, Arapaho; Scabby Bull, Arapaho; Wolf Robe, Cheyenne; D. W. Bushyhead, Cherokee; John Jumper, Seminole; Plenty Coups, Crow; Rushing Bear, Arikara; Gall, Hunkpapa; John Grass, Sihasapa; Lean Wolf, Hidatsa; Chief Joseph, Nez Perce; and Lone Wolf, Kiowa; as well as people associated with Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show. The collection also includes copies of some images by other photographers, including G. G. Rockwood and F. T. Cummins.
Biographical/Historical note:
Charles Milton Bell (circa 1849-1893) was the youngest member of a family of photographers that operated a studio in Washington, DC, from around 1860-1874. Bell established his own studio on Pennsylvania Avenue in 1873 and it rapidly became one of the leading photography studios in the city. Bell developed the patronage of Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, who sent Native American visitors to the studio to have their portraits made. Bell also made photographs of Native Americans for the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 80, NAA MS 4661
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Copy prints previously filed in MS 4661 have been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 80. These are also copy prints of Bell negatives that were acquired from Boyce and form part of this collection.
Additional C. M. Bell photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 4420, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 60, Photo Lot 81-44, Photo lot 87-2P, and Photo Lot 90-1.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
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Topic:
Indians of North America -- Southern states Search this
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Indians of North America -- Southwest, New Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Postcards
Scope and Contents:
Pictured are Quanah Parker, Ah-pe-sh-tene, Lone Wolf, Keon-kah- zah-ohy, Ca-va-yo, Pah-ko-toquodle, George Hunt, Mi-ziz-zoon-dy, Soon-tey, Ar- rushe, Esh-i-ti, San-ka-do-to, Otto Wells, Delos K. Lonewolf, Tennyson Berry, Pe-ah-coose, Eustace Ferrick, Kline-ko-le, Max Frizzlehead, Ko-mah-ty, Henry Tse-lee, Lieutenant Stecker, and John A. Hendricks.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09894000
Other Title:
"Taken at the Kiowa Agency, November 26, 1907"
"Prominent Indians. Indian Agent and U.S. Indian Attorney."
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
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Collection Citation:
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Place:
Oklahoma -- Cache (near)
Date:
1909 ?
Scope and Contents:
"Taken 1909 ? / Standing in back row: 1. Nora Cox Davis [granddaughter of Quanah], 2. Nina Quo-haddy-Komah, 3. Walter Komah, 4. Wanada Parker-Komah-Page, 5. Quanah Parker, 6. Bessie Parker Asenak [granddaughter of Quanah], 7. Mrs Laura Parker, 8. Mr White Parker. Seated center row: 1. Mr Edward Emmett Cox [son-in-law], 2. Mrs (Nawmakuh) Parker Cox [daughter], 3. Baby on her lap, William M. Cox, 4. Tokay Quanah wife (Tau pah) last wife, 5. Tonarcy Quanah wife (Too-na-suh) next to last wife, 6. Neda Parker Birdsong [daughter], 7. M. Aubrey Birdsong [son-in-law]. Seated lower row: 1. Ella Coxe Goodin Lutz [granddaughter], 2. Joseph Cox [grandson], 3. Edward Cox [grandson], 4. Kelsey [Parker], 5. Chee Parker, children of Tokay, 6. [Anona Birdsong-Wilkinson], Bass Dean-daughter of Neda," handwritten on reverse of print by Mrs Ella Cox Lutz.Further identification of kinship supplied from Zoe A. Tilghman, Quanah The Eagle of the Comanches, Oklahoma City, 1938, page 195.
Cynthia Ann Parker : the story of her capture at the massacre of the inmates of Parker's Fort : of her quarter of a century spent among the Comanches, as the wife of the war chief, Peta Nocona : and of her recapture at the battle of Pease River, by Captain L.S. Ross, of the Texian Rangers / by James T. De Shields ; foreword by John Graves
Indians of North America -- Great Basin Search this
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America Search this
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Prints
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Contents: Catalog Number 4458: 1) Tribe: Shoshoni Description: Washakie Photographer: Baker & Johnston No date See Bureau of American Ethnology Negative Number 1664. 2) Shoshoni Washakie's grandson Baker & Johnston No date 42023-E. 3) Shoshoni Wickiup with meat drying, Fort Washakie, Wyoming Photographer unknown 1891. 4) Tribe: Arapaho Description: Boy Photographer: Baker & Johnston No date See Bureau of American Ethnology Negative Number 42017-E. 5) Tribe: Chilkat (Filed: Tlingit) Description: Indians in dancing costume Photographer: Winter & Pond Juneau Date: 1895 copyright See Bureau of American Ethnology Negative Number 73-6821. 6) Tribe: Comanche Description: Quanah Parker, on horseback. Fort Sill, Oklahoma Photographer unknown Date: ca. 1897 See Bureau of American Ethnology Number 43,896-E. 7) Comanche (Duplicate of 4458:6.)
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4458
Local Note:
Filed according to tribe in series of original photos.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Contains three typescripts: (a) "The Comanche Centaurs and Quanah Parker," 234 pages; (b) "Kicking Bird, Prince of the Kiowas," 74 pages; (c) "The Jacksboro Trials of Satanta and Big Tree," 48 pages.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4587
Local Note:
Carbon typescripts
Other Title:
The Prairie Centaurs
The Comanche Centaurs and Quanah Parker
Kicking Bird, Prince of the Kiowas
The Jacksboro Trials of Satanta and Big Tree
Topic:
Federal-Indian relations -- Jacksboro Trials Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 4587, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Comanche moon, a picture narrative about Cynthia Ann Parker : her twenty-five year captivity among the Comanche Indians and her son, Quanah Parker, the last chief of the Comanches / written and illustrated by Jack Jackson ; introd. by T.R. Fehrenbach
