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  • Deteriorated rifle buttstock
  • Rifles; Campaigns & battles; Weapons; Nimíipuu; Nez Perce
  • This buttstock is the back portion of a rifle that usually sits on one's shoulder. One can see the deterioration of this wooden buttstock due to exposure to the weather elements. Evidence suggests this fragment was picked up at c'aynim...
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  • wal'áwa (Wallowa Lake)
  • Lakes; Nez Perce
  • wal'áwa (Wallowa Lake, Oregon), sits in a valley in the Blue Mountains in northeast Oregon. It is the ancestral home of the Nez Perce and from the note with the picture, burial place of Tiwi-teqis (Old Chief Joseph). This photograph was likely...
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  • Loynes, Charles N.
  • Military officers; Military uniforms; Portraits
  • Charles N. Loynes sits for a portrait. He was a Sergeant Co. I. and a member of Company K, Seventh US Infantry. He was also a Drum Major Regimental Band in Fort Snelling. Born July 1853 in Massachusetts, he was, according to note on photograph, one...
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  • piyopyóot’alikt (Chief Peo Peo Tholekt) on a war pony
  • Portraits; Ponies; Clothing & dress; Nez Perce
  • piyopyóot’alikt (Chief Peo-Peo Tholekt) sits on what McWhorter calls, on the back of the photograph, a typical war pony. He is dressed in native regalia specific to a chief.
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