Description: Group photograph of Dove Wing, Half Moon, Scar Face Bear, Mountain Panther, Nisculitte, American Horse, and Sunshine, ca. 1883-1897. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03841
Subjects: American Indians--Portraits; American Indians
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a lithograph of an oil painting of Lappawinsoe, chief of the Lenape (Delaware) Tribe, published in volume one of "History of the Indian Tribes of North America" by Thomas Loraine McKenney and James Hall. Lappawinsoe is most commonly known for his involvement in the Walking Purchase Agreement, a treaty agreement between the Lenape and Thomas Penn, son of Pennsylvania colony's founder William Penn, in which the Lenape were unfairly forced to relinquish 1,200,000 acres of their land in 1737. Thomas McKenny served as the United States Superintendent of Indian Trade in 1821 and commissioned portraits of American Indian leaders who visited Washington D.C. to negotiate treaties with the United States federal government in order to to preserve the memory and history of America's native peoples. After the paintings were completed, he commissioned lithographs of the 300 paintings and compiled them into three volumes of "History of the Indian Tribes of North America" where a short biography accompanied each portrait. The paintings were housed at the Smithsonian Institution Building, commonly referred to as the Castle, and in 1868 all but five were destroyed in a devastating fire. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: V970_97M199h_v1_p405_LapPaWinSoe
Subjects: American Indian history; American Indians--Portraits; American Indians in Ohio; American Indian tribal leaders
Places: Washington D.C.
 

Description: This is a lithograph of an oil painting of Mohawk leader Joseph Brant, or Thayendanegea, published in volume one of "History of the Indian Tribes of North America" by Thomas Loraine McKenney and James Hall. Joseph Brant (1743-1807) was born to Peter and Margaret (Owandah) Tehonwaghkwangearahkwa along the Cuyahoga River in the Ohio Country. After his father's death, Brant's mother remarried a Mohawk sachem named Brant. Brant's father was good friends with the wealthy British Superintendent for Northern Indian Affairs, William Johnson, who later funded Joseph's education and connected Brant with important political leaders. Brant allied with the British during the French and Indian War (1754-1763) and the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Thomas McKenny served as the United States Superintendent of Indian Trade in 1821 and commissioned portraits of American Indian leaders who visited Washington D.C. to negotiate treaties with the United States federal government in order to to preserve the memory and history of America's native peoples. After the paintings were completed, he commissioned lithographs of the 300 paintings and compiled them into three volumes of "History of the Indian Tribes of North America" where a short biography accompanied each portrait. The paintings were housed at the Smithsonian Institution Building, commonly referred to as the Castle, and in 1868 all but five were destroyed in a devastating fire. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: V970_97M199h_v2_p214_Thayendanegea
Subjects: American Indian history; American Indians--Portraits; American Indians in Ohio; American Indian tribal leaders
Places: Washington D.C.
 

Description: Photograph of a Native American in traditional dress on museum steps, 1937. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03830
Subjects: American Indians; American Indians--Portraits
 

Description: Photograph of Tonkey Boy, great Kiowa warrior, ca. 1880-1889. Members of the Kiowa tribe lived in and around the Texas panhandle including western Oklahoma and northeast New Mexico. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03831
Subjects: Young men; Kiowa Indians; American Indians--Portraits; Native American history and society
 

Description: Portrait of a Native American with the inscription, "Bah Born Ba-Dah," ca. 1880-1889. He is seated, wrapped in a blanket and appears to be smoking a pipe. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03832
Subjects: American Indians; American Indians--Portraits; Native American history and society
 

Description: Portrait photograph of Black Bear, inscribed "J.F. Bush, 1882." The photograph was taken by Mitchell & McGowan, traveling photographers who were headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03833
Subjects: American Indians; American Indians--Portraits; Native American history and society
Places: St. Louis (Missouri)
 

Description: Group photograph of Dove Wing, Scar Face Bear, Nisculitte, and American Horse, in St. Marys, Ohio, ca. 1880-1889. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03834
Subjects: American Indians; American Horse, Dakota chief, 1840-1908; Dakota Indians--1880-1890; American Indians--Portraits; Native American history and society
Places: St. Marys (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Chief Scar Face Bear, before a background of Native American-themed images, ca. 1880-1889. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03836
Subjects: American Indians; American Indians--Portraits; Native American history and society
 

Description: Photograph of Dove Wing, a Native American woman, ca. 1880-1889. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03837
Subjects: American Indians; American Indian women; American Indians--Portraits; Native American history and society
 

Description: Photograph of Nisculitte, a Native American baby, ca. 1880-1889. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03838
Subjects: American Indians; Children--Ohio; American Indians--Portraits; Native American history and society
 

Description: Photograph of Henry Franklin, a Native American baby whose father was named Frank, ca. 1880-1889. He is pictured in a papoose. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03839
Subjects: American Indians; Children--Ohio; American Indians--Portraits; Native American history and society