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  • Bead embroidered comb or berry picker/stripper
  • Combs; Bead embroidery; Embroidery; Berries--Harvesting; Tools; Nimíipuu; Nez Perce
  • This item is either a personal hair comb or berry picker/stripper. Many Native American peoples, including Nimíipuu (Nez Perce), used berry strippers to more easily and quickly pick/strip berries from plants or vines. Though the specific person...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • Beaded gauntlets
  • Gauntlets (Gloves); Gloves; Bead embroidery; Handicraft; Nimíipuu; Nez Perce
  • These beaded gauntlets are a form of decorative riding gloves used by men and women. The earliest versions of gauntlets were originally used by European soldiers for protection during battles in the fourteenth century. In the early nineteenth...
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  • Breast Works
  • Landscape; Fortifications
  • Photo of breast works that were stone fortifications during battle protecting Native Americans.
  • 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...
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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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  • Burial of Tiwi-teqis (Old Chief Joseph)
  • Old Chief Joseph; Nez Perce
  • Photograph of Native Americans on horseback traveling to Tiwi-teqis (Old Chief Joseph's) burial at wal'áwa (Wallowa Lake, Oregon).
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  • Comb bag
  • Combs; Pouches (Containers); Bead embroidery; Embroidery; Handicraft; Nimíipuu; Nez Perce
  • This bag is considered a comb bag that Native American peoples, including the Nimíipuu (Nez Perce), would use to carry hair combs and other personal items. This particular bag is made from pink cloth that is most likely commercial, trade cloth. ...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • Comb or berry picker/stripper
  • Combs; Berries--Harvesting; Tools; Nimíipuu; Nez Perce
  • This item is either a personal hair comb or berry picker/stripper. Many Native American peoples, including Nimíipuu (Nez Perce), used berry strippers to more easily and quickly pick/strip berries from plants or vines. Though the specific person...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • Custer's Battlefield
  • Battlefields--Montana; Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876; Historic sites--Montana; Indians of North America; Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876; Kopac, Emil
  • Site of the Battle of Little Big Horn, which took place in 1876 between the U.S. Army and the Lakota-Northern Cheyenne, and which is also known as Custer's Last Stand. Native Americans refer to it as the Battle of A view of the site of the Battle...
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  • Custer's Battlefield
  • Battlefields--Montana; Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876; Historic sites--Montana; Indians of North America; Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876; Kopac, Emil
  • Site of the Battle of Little Big Horn, which took place in 1876 between the U.S. Army and the Lakota-Northern Cheyenne, and which is also known as Custer's Last Stand. Native Americans refer to it as the Battle of A view of the site of the Battle...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • Cylindrical or cannon bone awl
  • Awls; Tools; Sewing; Stitches (sewing); Leatherwork; Handicraft; Nimíipuu; Nez Perce
  • An awl is a tool regularly used for stitching, creating holes for sewing, or sewing thick materials, including leather and canvas. While many awls have a bone base with a sharpened point, such as a steel needle, attached to the end, these two awls...
  • 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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  • Group portrait in front of White Swan Grill
  • Indians of North America; Ice cream cones; Indian women
  • A group photograph of a Native American Family enjoying their ice cream treat in front of the White Swan Grill. These unidentified individuals appear to have conformed to modern society. They are wearing regular 1920's attire instead of their...
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  • Gully on Custer Battlefield
  • Battlefields--Montana; Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876; Historic sites--Montana; Indians of North America; Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876; Kopac, Emil
  • The Battle of Little Big Horn was also known as Custer's Last Stand, and by the Native Americans it is referred to as the Battle of Greasy Grass Creek. This was a battle between the 7th Calvary of the US Army and the Lakota-Northern Cheyenne Tribe....
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  • hímiin maqsmáqs (Yellow Wolf) and 'iléxni 'éewteesin' (Many Wounds) at lamáta (White Bird)
  • Nez Perce National Historical Park, 1866-1895; Yellow Wolf; Many Wounds; Nez Perce
  • hímiin maqsmáqs (Yellow Wolf) and 'iléxni 'éewteesin' (Many Wounds) are posing for a photograph at lamáta (White Bird). They are standing in front of the lamáta (White Bird Battlefield) marker which commemorates the Nez Perce victory over the U.S....
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  • hímiin maqsmáqs (Yellow Wolf) with k’aplác (war club) and tim’úuni (rifle)
  • Yellow Wolf; Nez Perce
  • hímiin maqsmáqs (Yellow Wolf) standing beside a tipi, dressed in Native American attire. He is holding a k’aplác (war club) and a tim’úuni (rifle) used in 1877. Photograph found in Last Stand at Nez Perce. On the back of the photograph: "Chief...
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  • Jackson Sundown Cabin
  • House; Nez Perce
  • Site of Jackson Sundown's cabin, a famous Native American horseman. An old cabin, built by Jackson Sundown, a famous Native American horsemen, who as a child escaped from the c'aynim 'alikinwaaspa (Bear Paw battlefield) to a refuge in Canada. He...
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  • Jim Red Cloud's group at James H. Cook's Ranch
  • Group
  • Photo of a group of Native Americans at Cook's Ranch at Agate Nebraska on June 1931.
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  • L.V. McWhorter's ceremonial pipe
  • Pipe smoking; Tobacco pipes; Ceremonial objects; Nimíipuu; Nez Perce
  • This ceremonial pipe was made by the Nimíipuu (Nez Perce) and given to L. V. McWhorter. The pipe is made from catlinite, which is a type of argillite (sedimentary rock) that is reddish in color. Catlinite is commonly used by many Native American...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • Landscape with breast work
  • Fortification
  • Photo of breast works that were stone fortifications during battle protecting Native Americans.
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