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  • Bullet Pierced Clothes
  • Battle; Nez Perce
  • Photos of Sergeant Loynes' Bullet Pierced Clothes "Photographs of two pieces of shirts' (two shirts) with bullet holes received from Native American's rifle, Battle of the Big Hole, Montana, Aug 9, 1877. Ball passed through a wrinkle in the two...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • Boulder group
  • Landscape; Nez Perce
  • Site of the last stand of the Lieutenant Rains party. "The above is to be the legend under the cut of the large boulder group claimed to have been the last stand of the Lieut. Rains party"
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • View of lamáta (Whitebird battlefield)
  • Landscape; Nez Perce
  • Photo overlooking the lamáta (Whitebird battlefield). "Overlooking the Whitebird battlefield. The Nez Perces choose this field for the first battle, and defeated the soldiers, under Colonel Perry, decisively"
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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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...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • Lieutenant Rains Last Stand
  • War--War casualties; Battlefields--Washington (State)--Lieutenant Rains last stand; Cavalry--United States Army--Washington (state)--Cottonwood; Landscape photographs; Military defeats; Nez Perce
  • Where Native Americans say Lieutenant Rains and companions made last stand, Nez Perce War, 1877. This picture was identified as the spot where the last of the Lieutenant Rains company was annihilated as stated in Bennet's narrative. The rock...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • Location Where piyopyóot’alikt (Peo Peo Tholekt) and a ceeptitím’nin (Cheyenne) Warrior had a Duel
  • Battlefields--Montana--Bear Paw Battlefield; Cavalry--United States Army--Washington (state)--Bear Paw; Land--Mountains; Land--Rock formations; Landscape photographs; Military retreats; Mountains (Montana); Passes--Mountain passes; Peace; Peace...
  • Scene where piyopyóot’alikt (Peo Peo Tholekt) and a ceeptitím’nin (Cheyenne) warrior had a duel, c'aynim 'alikinwaaspa (Bear Paw Mountain battle), September 30, 1877. The smaller stone heap is where piyopyóot’alikt (Peo Peo Tholekt) stood...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • Place Where Tah-tah-koh-lih-kin was Wounded
  • Battlefields--Montana--Bear Paw Battlefield; Cavalry--United States Army--Washington (state)--Bear Paw; Land--Mountains; Land--Rock formations; Landscape photographs; Military retreats; Mountains (Montana); Passes--Mountain passes; Peace; Peace...
  • Behind this boulder, a Nez Perce warrior lay sniping Miles' men at c'aynim 'alikinwaaspa (Bear Paw Mountain). Left: Ed Fredlund, right: Raymond R. Noyes, of Chinook. Photo Nov 24th 1932 by Emil Kopac Oshkosh Neb. "Ed Fredlund, county surveyor, and...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • Bullet-Scarred Boulder at c'aynim 'alikinwaaspa (Bear Paw Mountain Battlefield)
  • Bear Paw, Battle of, Mont., 1877; Battlefields--Montana--Bear Paw Battlefield; United States--Army--Cavalry; Land--Mountains; Land--Rock formations; Landscape photography; Mountains--Montana; Mountain passes--Montana; Peace negotiations;...
  • A boulder scarred by bullets from the c'aynim 'alikinwaaspa (Battle of Bear Paw Mountain), which occurred between September 30 and October 5, 1877. It was here that the Nez Perce made their last stand before surrendering to Colonel Nelson Miles....
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • Bullet Pierced Clothes
  • Battle; Nez Perce
  • Photos of Sergeant Loynes' Bullet Pierced Clothes "Photographs of two pieces of shirts' (two shirts) with bullet holes received from Native American's rifle, Battle of the Big Hole, Montana, Aug 9, 1877. Ball passed through a wrinkle in the two...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • Portrait of a younger piyopyóot’alikt (Peo Peo Tholekt)
  • Chiefs; Beadwork; Tholekt, Chief Peo Peo; Peo, George; Nez Perce
  • piyopyóot’alikt (Peo Peo Tholekt) is posing for portrait wearing a dark shirt and necklace. Arm bands of fur are wrapped around his arms. In the Nez Perce Wars of 1877, piyopyóot’alikt (Peo Peo Tholekt, George Peo, or Bird Alighting) served under...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • Side profile of piyopyóot’alikt (Peo Peo Tholekt)
  • Beadwork; Tholekt, Chief Peo Peo; Peo, George; Nez Perce
  • This image is a side-profile of the piyopyóot’alikt (Peo Peo Tholekt) wearing a wool coat, which is fringed along the shoulder. On the front of his chest, a star is pinned to his shirt. On verso of photograph, an unidentified source wrote "Chief...
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  • piyopyóot’alikt (Peo Peo Tholekt) on war pony (1911)
  • Beadwork; Tholekt, Chief Peo Peo; Tholekt, George; Nez Perce
  • piyopyóot’alikt (Peo Peo Tholekt) is riding a war pony while posing for a portrait. He is wearing a ceremonial dress and holding a decorated lance. In the Nez Perce Wars of 1877, piyopyóot’alikt (Peo Peo Tholekt, George Peo, or Bird Alighting)...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • Studio Portrait of wetyétmes wahayqt (John Minthorn)
  • Costume & clothes; Swan necklace; Minthorn, John; Nez Perce
  • Studio portrait of wetyétmes wahayqt (John Minthorn) wearing a long plaid tunic over his c’apkiláakt (breech cloth) and xe’xépil (leggings). His Nez Perce name was wetyétmes wahayqt (Swan Necklace). A piece of paper accompanying this image stated ...
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  • Native Americans who negotiated the ineffective Treaty of 1863
  • Group portraits; Nez Perce
  • Seated: Tamootssu, Lawyer, and Jason. The standing white men are unidentified. These Nez Perces, together with Utsinmalikhin, who died under mysterious circumstances in Washington, D.C. before this picture was taken, negotiated the treaty of 1863,...
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  • Site of dead soldiers
  • Yellow Wolf, 1855-1935; Nez Perce
  • hímiin maqsmáqs' (Yellow Wolf's) demonstration at site of ‘ickum’kiléelixpe (Big Hole Battlefield).
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection

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