Thomas Lindsey
Rating
Title
Thomas Lindsey
Description
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 Nez Perce name . According to Williams this name translates roughly into Stop Lightning in the Mountains . Lindsey and McWhorter met at the páasx̣pa (Walla Walla) frontier days festival . Lindsey fought in the 1877 Nez Perce War . This photograph was likely taken between 1880 and 1930 .
Creator
McWhorter , Lucullus Virgil , 1860-1944
Subject
Warriors ; Nez Perce--Wars , 1877 ; Lindsey , Thomas ; Wat Yu Tsa Kaun ; Stop Lightning in the Mountains ; Nez Perce
Type
Image
Medium
Photographs
Language
eng, nai
Identifier
pc085b02f18_1.jpg
Rights Notes
No known copyright. Item went into public domain 70 years after the 1944 death of the creator.
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/
Date Digitized
2008
Source
Is found in PC 85 , Lucullus Virgil McWhorter Photographs https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/pc85.htm at Washington State University Libraries ' Manuscripts , Archives , and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
Contributors
Homberger , Torsten
Relation
ark:/80444/xv20180
Digitization
Original photographic prints were scanned at 24 bit color, with 3000 pixels by the long side, for master TIFF files on an Epson Expression 10,000 XL scanner. Prints were then scanned at 24 bit, with 600 pixels by the long side, as jpeg files. These JPEGs were then added to the CONTENTdm database at WSU Libraries.
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