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  • Penah-we-non-mi's Saddle
  • Penahwenonmi; Saddle; Nez Perce
  • Photograph of Penah-we-non-mi's (Helping Another's) saddle made in Sitting Bull's camp in Canada. Pe-nah-we-non-me (Helping Another) was married to húusus 'ewyíin (Wounded Head), a prominent warrior of the Nez Perce War of 1877, who told many of...
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  • Scene where hinmatóoyalahtq’it (Chief Joseph) died
  • Mrs. Kanuakun-wak-wak; Nez Perce
  • Standing woman; Mrs. Kanuakun-wak-wak on the Colville Reservation looking North East, standing at the exact spot where hinmatóoyalahtq’it' (Chief Joseph's) teepee stood when he died.
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  • Mrs. Kate Williams, Yakama
  • Indians of North America
  • Studio portrait of Yakama woman; Mrs. Williams, or "Yes-to-lah-lemy"
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  • Pe-nah-we-non-me (Helping Another), wife of húusus 'ewyíin (Wounded Head), with daughter and granddaughter
  • Penahwenonmi; Nez Perce
  • Pe-nah-we-non-me photographed here in the later years of her life with her daughter, Mrs. White, and granddaughter on the Nez Perce reservation in Spalding, Idaho. Pe-nah-we-non-me was married to húusus 'ewyíin (Wounded Head), a prominent warrior...
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  • Wetatonmi wife of ’álok’at (Alokat)
  • Ollokot, Nez Percé Chief, 1844?-1877; Wetatonmi; Nez Perce
  • Wetatonmi was married to ’álok’at (Alokat), a warrior in the Nez Perce war of 1877 and brother of hinmatóoyalahtq’it (Chief Joseph). Wetatonmi delivered a horse to ’álok’at (Alokat) in the midst of battle when she heard from a warrior that her...
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  • First Prize
  • Joe, Minnie; Nez Perce
  • Sitting Nez Perce woman and child; Mrs. Minnie Joe and baby, wal'wáama/qemúynuu (Wallowa/Joseph band) Nez Perce. This baby won the first prize, a silver cup, over twenty nine other Native American babies, in a contest under the auspices of the...
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  • Yes-to-lah-lemy
  • Indians of North America
  • Standing Yakima woman; McWhorter described Mrs. Willimas, wife of Ceasar Willimas, or Lu-pah-hin as a woman of strong intellect with high standing among her people. Her father, Quas-quit, was a Yakima, while her mother, Au-a-whoa, was the daughter...
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  • White Feather
  • White Feather; Nez Perce
  • Sitting Nez Perce woman; This Nez Perce Girl represents the tragic side of war as well as the tradition to have different successive names within the Nez Perce tribe. She lost her family during the ‘ickum’kiléelixpe (Battle of the Big Hole) in...
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  • Ayatootonmi and Jasper
  • Ayatootonmi; Jasper; Nez Perce
  • hímiin maqsmáqs (Yellow Wolf's) wife and son, Ayatootonmi and Jasper, camping on L.V. McWhorter's land. On verso of photograph: "Mrs. Yellow Wolf camped on land of L.V. McWhorter, 1908."
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  • Yakama woman and child
  • Indians of North America--Yakama Indians--Women--Children
  • Photograph of Ni-Yah-Tut, wife of William Charley sitting on a blanket with her baby. From the back of the photograph, "Mrs. William Charley and baby photo. Aug 25-1917, by: L.V. McWhorter. Typical Indian mother and baby-She looks an Indian baby...
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