Show 99 more

• • Thumbnail
  • Title
  • Subject
  • Description
  • Collection
• • 
    
    
  • Medicine Tree with Chiefs
  • Forest; Flathead Nation; Salish; Charlot, Martin; Vanderberg, Victor; Nez Perce
  • Site of the historical medicine tree in the łitáan (Bitterroot) Valley. The historical medicine tree in the łitáan (Bitterroot) Valley "The Flatheads, as well as the Nez Perces, paid homage to this tree, and left offerings when passing. Among the...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
• • 
    
    
  • 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...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
• • 
    
    
  • séelix (Flathead) Members at Medicine Tree
  • Flathead Nation; Nez Perce
  • Group of séelix (Flathead) members in front of a tree; "The historical Medicine Tree in the Bitter Root Valley. The Flatheads, as well as the Nez Perce, paid homage to this tree and left offerings when passing. Among the Flatheads here shown are...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
• • 
    
    
  • hímiin maqsmáqs' (Yellow Wolf's) medal
  • Yellow Wolf; Nez Perce
  • Photograph of hímiin maqsmáqs' (Yellow Wolf's) war medal displaying both front and back. hímiin maqsmáqs' (Yellow Wolf's) name is engraved on the front as well as McWhorter's name. Includes a quote from hímiin maqsmáqs (Yellow Wolf) on the back of...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
• • 
    
    
  • Irrigation system
  • Irrigation; Mann, Louis; Water pumps; Indians of North America--Yakama Indians
  • A Yakama Indian named Louis Mann sitting on a log pumping water into his garden that was once fertile but now is barren. Louis Mann was a full-blooded Yakama Indian, he was well educated at a Catholic school and became the Corresponding Secretary...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection

• Select All Collections