White Feather
Rating
Title
White Feather
Date Original
1878
Description
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 1877 . Severely wounded by a rifle shot through the shoulder a white soldier , or citizen volunteer , brutally hit her in the face with the butt of his rifle when she held on to his boot . Her wounds did not allow her to travel with qemúynuu (Chief Josephs band) and she was left behind . A chipped tooth , the result of the hit with the rifle butt , caused a change of her name . White Feather was called Broken Tooth , or In-who-lise by her tribe when she married a white settler . She was killed as Mrs . Andrew Garcia by ‘isq’óyxnix (Blackfeet) peoples while digging roots in 1878 .
Creator
Government Photographer , Fort Benton , MT
Subject
White Feather ; Nez Perce
Type
Image
Medium
Photographs
Language
eng, nai
Identifier
pc085b01num1-217
Rights Notes
In copyright. Item is in copyright until 95 years after publication date.
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Date Digitized
2008-11-13
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
Funding Source
Funding provided by Washington Women's History Consortium: http://www.washingtonwomenshistory.org/
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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