Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American IndiansJackson, William Henry
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Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians
Jackson, William Henry
Indians of North America -- Biography; Indians of North America -- Portraits -- Catalogs
659-660. WAR CHIEF'S TENT.
The war chief is generally a man of more importance in the village,
especially when in the neighborhood of enemies, than the chief
himself. In this instance his tent, situated in the centre of the
encampment, is adorned with broad bands of black, yellow, and white,
rendering it quite conspicuous. The war chief, or his lieutenant,
issues forth frequently to announce, in the far-reaching voice
peculiar to Indians, the orders which are to govern their actions,
while within is an almost uninterrupted thumping on drums.
661-2. WASHAKIE AND HIS WARRIORS.
A group in front of the tent of the head chief Washakie. About him
are gathered all the chief men of the encampment.
663-4. WASHAKIE.
This well-known chief is a man of more than ordinary ability, and
his record as a steadfast friend of the white people has come down
to the present time without a blemish. He is now well advanced in
years, but still retains his vigor, and his influence over the
tribe. One of the above portraits was made in the South Pass
encampment, and the other is a copy of one made in Salt Lake City.
665-6. VIEWS IN THE VILLAGE.
667-676. GROUPS of in-door and out-door subjects, copied from small
card views made in Salt Lake City, and which formed a part of
the first Blackmore collection.
5. UTAHS.
The Utahs, Yutas, or Utes, as the name is variously written, are a large
tribe belonging to the great Shoshone family, and who occupy the
mountainous portion of Colorado, with portions of Utah, New Mexico, and
Nevada. Those living in the mountains where game abounds have a fine
physical development, are brave and hardy, and comparatively well to do;
while those who inhabit the sterile plains of the Salt Lake Basin are
miserably poor, and spiritless. We derive our first knowledge of the
Utahs from the early Spanish explorers, who came in contact with them on
the upper waters of the Rio Grande del Norte, and who gave them the
reputation of being a brave and warlike tribe. Their country bordered
that of the Navajos on the south (the Rio San Juan now dividing them),
who formerly ranged as far north as the waters of the Grand, but were
crowded back by the Utahs. A continuous warfare was kept up between the
tribes, in which the Navajos were worsted. The Utahs were employed
against them by the Government at the time of their expulsion from their
country in 1863. The tribe is divided into many bands, which are
continually changing, but as now recognized are as follows: Capotes,
Weeminuches, Tabeguaches, Muaches, Grand River, Yampas, Uintahs, Peahs,
Goships, and Mouaches. The tribe now numbers in the aggregate 5,260. The
Pi-Utes, Pi-Edes, Timpanagos, San-pitches, and others in Utah are
kindred tribes.
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