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chief (tribal leader)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Art & Architecture Thesaurus\AGENTS FACET\People\people\people by occupation\people in government and administration\rulers (people)\

Found in 883 Collections and/or Records:

Peter Bigheart, Chief, August 23, 1909

 Item — Folder Osage.3: [Barcode: 3.Osage.3]
Identifier: 4327.4408
Description

Folder 3



Inscription(s)

Inscribed, "Peter Bigheart, preasant chief of the Osage Indian tribe, Copyrited 8/23/1909, By Wm. J. Boag, Photographer, Pawhuska, Okla" on verso

Dates: August 23, 1909
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / PC.OklahomaNativeAmerican, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection

Peter Bigheart, present chief of the Osage Indian tribe, August 23, 1909

 Item — Folder Osage.3: [Barcode: 3.Osage.3]
Identifier: 4327.4407
Description

Folder 3



Inscription(s)

Inscribed, "Peter Bigheart, present chief of the Osage Indian tribe, Copywrighted 8/23/1909, By Wm. J. Boag, Photographer, Pawhuska, Okla" on verso

Dates: August 23, 1909
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / PC.OklahomaNativeAmerican, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection

Peter Paul Pitchlynn, U.S. Indian School, Haskell, Lawrence. Kansas, 1850 - 1900

 Item — Folder Choctaw.11c: [Barcode: 3.Choctaw.11c]
Identifier: 4327.8046
Description

Folder 11c



Inscription(s)

Inscribed, "Peter Paul Pitchlynn, U.S. Indian School, Haskell, Lawrence, Kansas" on verso

Dates: 1850 - 1900
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / PC.OklahomaNativeAmerican, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection

Petition of Letter from New Echota to Chief John Ross, February 17, 1837

 Item — Folder 212: [Barcode: 187.212]
Identifier: 4026.438-.1
Description

Petition of letter from New Echota to Chief John Ross in Washington City citing abuses of Cherokee and asking 'that you give us some encouragement of your reconciliation to the fate (which has now become evident) of the Cherokees…'Let us do the only thing that reason will allow us to do, which is to get away speedily from this state of affairs.' Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on four pages. Folder 212

Dates: February 17, 1837
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.185, Manuscript Collection: John Ross Papers

Photocopy of Quanah Parker's granddaughter, 1892

 Item — Folder Comanche.12: [Barcode: 3.Comanche.12]
Identifier: 4326.3878
Description

The original black and white glass negative of Quanah Parker's granddaughter is credited to BAE GN 01748A 06299800, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Folder 12

Dates: 1892
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / PC.OklahomaNativeAmerican, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection

Photograph of a portrait of S.W. Brown, Jr., 1850 - 1900

 Item — Folder Euchee.1: [Barcode: 3.Euchee.1]
Identifier: 4327.3673
Description

Folder 1



Inscription(s)

Inscribed, "copy from portrait made from the last photo of S.W. Brown, Jr." on verso

Dates: 1850 - 1900
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / PC.OklahomaNativeAmerican, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection

Photostat of Letter from Chief John Ross to John Howard Payne, January 7, 1836

 Item — Folder 180: [Barcode: 187.180]
Identifier: 4026.427-.4
Description

Photostat of a letter from Chief John Ross in Washington City, to John Howard Payne in New York. The Ross Delegation has presented credentials to President who has received a Cherokee memorial of which Chief John Ross has no knowledge. Made by State Department and sent by Captain Edwin Piburn, United States Army to show how Photostats come out. (Typescript) (Moulton) Four sheets of paper with typed text on the rectos. One sheet of paper is a Photostat. Folder 180

Dates: January 7, 1836
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.185, Manuscript Collection: John Ross Papers

Possibly Bear Hawk, son of Shot in the Eye, 1850 - 1900

 Item — Folder Sioux.8: [Barcode: 3.Sioux.8]
Identifier: 4326.3943
Description

Black and white photograph of Bear (?) Hawk the son of Shot in the Eye. Unknown setting. Head shot. Wearing Plains Indian headdress. Folder 8

Dates: 1850 - 1900
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / PC.OklahomaNativeAmerican, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection

Possibly Chief Flying Hawk, 1850 - 1900

 Item — Folder Sioux.48: [Barcode: 3.Sioux.48]
Identifier: 4326.4689
Description

Folder 48

Dates: 1850 - 1900
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / PC.OklahomaNativeAmerican, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection

Possibly Chief Heidsieck, 1850 - 1900

 Item — Folder Kiowa.9: [Barcode: 3.Kiowa.9]
Identifier: 4326.4046
Description

Folder 9

Dates: 1850 - 1900
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / PC.OklahomaNativeAmerican, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection

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