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    • 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...
    • Kamiakun, Cleveland

    • Portraits; American Indians; Indians of North America; Indian men
    • Cleveland "Kamikun", youngest son of Chief "Kamiakun" [Kamiaken] of Treaty of 1855 and Yakima War 1855-1856. Name spellings are from back of the photograph
    • Studio Portrait of Daniel Webster or Black Eagle

    • Warriors; Costume & adornment; Nez Perce--Wars, 1877; Black Eagle; Webster, Daniel; Bearpaw Battlefiled; Sitting Bull; Nez Perce
    • Photograph of Daniel Webster also known as Black Eagle posing for a studio portrait. He is wearing elaborately beaded gloves with his name on the knuckles. Black Eagle is the son of Wottolen. As a young warrior, he escaped from the c'aynim...
    • 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 ...
    • Thomas Lindsey

    • Warriors; Nez Perce--Wars, 1877; Lindsey, Thomas; Wat Yu Tsa Kaun; Stop Lightning in the Mountains; Nez Perce
    • Studio portrait of Thomas Lindsey who is holding a tim’úuni (rifle). A number of rocks are placed at his feet. Known to L.V. McWhorter as Thomas Lindsey, or Wat Yu Tsa Kaun, McWhorter contacted his interpreter Williams and asked him to translate...
    • Thomas Lindsey's Family

    • Lindsey, Thomas; Nez Perce
    • Nez Perce family in front of their horse-drawn wagon; Thomas Lindsey's Native American name was Wat-yu-tsa-kann, or Stop Lightning in the Mountains. This photograph was likely taken between 1890 and 1930.
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • ‘ilewselikéecet (John Pinkham)

    • Warriors; Nez Perce--Wars, 1877; Pinkham, John; Nez Perce
    • Photograph of ‘ilewselikéecet (John Pinkham), a Nez Perce warrior, who fought in the Nez Perce Wars of 1877. This young man, who was given the name "‘ilewselikéecet ," along with five other men escaped the fighting at the ‘ickum’kiléelixpe (Big...

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