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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...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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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...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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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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  • 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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  • Pe-nah-we-non-me
  • Penahwenonmi; Nez Perce
  • Photograph of Pe-nah-we-non-me (Helping Another), wife of húusus 'ewyíin (Wounded Head). Photo 1928. Pe-nah-we-non-me was married to húusus 'ewyíin (Wounded Head), a prominent warrior of the Nez Perce War of 1877, who told many of his war...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection

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