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  • Splinter 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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  • 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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  • Obsidian flake scrapers
  • Scrapers (Tools); Tools; Campaigns & battles; Nimíipuu; Nez Perce
  • Flake scrapers were tools primarily used by Native American peoples, including the Nimíipuu (Nez Perce), for working with animal hides, animal fur, or wood. These two flake scrapers were made from obsidian rock, are black in color, and are 3.2 cm...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • hinmatóowyalahtq̓it' (Chief Joseph's) ceremonial pipe bag
  • Ceremonial objects; Handicraft; Tobacco pipes; Pouches (Containers); Nimíipuu; Nez Perce
  • This pipe bag belonged to Nimíipuu (Nez Perce) chief hinmatóowyalahtq̓it (Joseph). The unique aspect of this particular pipe bag is that it was used to carry the tobacco pipe's stem as opposed to most traditional pipe bags that were used to carry...
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  • Stone sinkers
  • Fishing; Rocks; Nimíipuu; Nez Perce
  • These six small rocks are called "stone sinkers." Native American peoples who engaged in fishing, including the Nimíipuu (Nez Perce), would often used stone sinkers to weigh down and hold fishing nets in place. The stone sinkers are identifiable...
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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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  • Rocks of c'aynim 'alikinwaaspa (Bear Paw Mountain)
  • Battle; Nez Perce
  • Point of Rocks at c'aynim 'alikinwaaspa (Bear Paw Mountains), c'aynim 'alikinwaaspa (Bear Paw Battlefield). "Within three days of reaching the Canadian border, the Nez Perces were camped on this creek in the Bear Paw Mountains when they were...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • William Foster Grave
  • Cemetery; Nez Perce
  • Photo of William Foster cemetery stone in tribute to William Foster who fell in lamáta (Whitebird battle).
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • Gravestone of Bernard A. Brooks at qém’es (Camas) Meadows Battlefield
  • Campaigns, Military; Battlefields across America; Historic sites; Camas Prairie (Idaho); Sepulchral monuments--West (U.S.); Nez Perce
  • A detail of the gravestone of Bernard A. Brooks, a bugler who died at the Battle of qém’es (Camas) Creek. In an interview with L. V. McWhorter, piyopyóot’alikt (Peo-Peo Tholekt) mentioned that he (piyopyóot’alikt (Peo-Peo Tholekt)) shot Brooks....
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  • Gravestone of Bernard A. Brooks at qém’es (Camas) Meadows Battlefield
  • Campaigns, Military; Battlefields across America; Historic sites; Camas Prairie (Idaho); Sepulchral monuments--West (U.S.); Nez Perce
  • A photograph of the gravestone of Bernard A. Brooks, a bugler who died at the Battle of qém’es (Camas) Creek. In an interview with L. V. McWhorter, piyopyóot’alikt (Peo-Peo Tholekt) mentioned that he (piyopyóot’alikt (Peo-Peo Tholekt)) shot...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • Embroidered Plateau-style moccasins
  • Moccasins: Embroidery; Beadwork embroidery; Quillwork; Nimíipuu; Nez Perce
  • This pair of moccasins was made from buckskin, such as deer skin. Each individual moccasin is decorated on the front of the with either quillwork or beadwork in a floral pattern using white, blue, green, and red beads or dyed porcupine quills. ...
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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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  • Grave of William Foster
  • Grave; Nez Perce
  • Photo of the grave of William Foster, who died at lamáta (The Battle of Whitebird Canyon).
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  • Monument for 17 Volunteers
  • Monument; Nez Perce
  • Photograph of monument erected one mile East of Cottonwood for the 17 volunteers who engaged in battle with the Native Americans during the Nez Perce War of 1877.
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • 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...
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  • ‘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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  • lepít híisemtuks (Two Moons)
  • Warriors; Nez Perce--Wars, 1877; Two Moons; Nez Perce
  • Photograph of lepít híisemtuks (Two Moons), a Nez Perce Warrior, who fought in the Nez Perce Wars of 1877. "Two Moons," or " lepít híisemtuks," described many of his stories about tribal warfare to McWhorter. Although he had a small stature, lepít...
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  • Bannock brown slate pipe
  • Pipe smoking; Tobacco pipes
  • This pipe is made from brown colored slate with a metal band around the bottom of the pipe. There isn't an associated pipe stem with this pipe. Though the exact time period the pipe was created or who created it is unknown, it was most likely...
  • McWhorter, L.V. Collection
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  • Yiyi Wasumwah; hímiin maqsmáqs' (Yellow Wolf's) mother
  • Yiyi Wasumwah; Yellow Wolf, 1855-1935; Nez Perce
  • Photograph of Yiyi Wasumwah, taken subsequent to her exile in Native American territory. Sitting Nez Perce woman; This woman played an important role in the Nez Perce War of 1877. At the beginning of hostilities, hímiin maqsmáqs (Yellow Wolf) did...
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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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