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(AMERICAN INDIANS.)
Group of 9 government documents.
8vo, various
bindings and conditions.
Vp, 1854-98
[200/300]
Indians—Oregon and Washington Territories . . . Recommending the Speedy Making of
Treaties with the Indian Tribes. Np, 1854 * Drew. Communication . . . giving an Account of
the Origin and Early Prosecution of the Indian War in Oregon. Np, 1860 * Nez Percé
Indian Reservation in Idaho . . . Authorizing the Purchase of Six Hundred and Forty Acres.
Np, 1874 * Report of the Special Commission Appointed to Investigate the Affairs of the
Red Cloud Indian Agency. Washington, 1875 * Jicarilla Apache and Ute Indians . . .
Petition of Citizens of Colfax County, New Mexico for Removal. Np, 1875 * Indian Service
in Oregon. Np, 1875 * Report . . . to Examine into the Condition of the Sioux Indians upon
their Reservation. With folding map. Np, 1884 * Morgan. Indian Education. Washington,
1890 * Rules for the Indian School Service. Washington, 1898.
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(AMERICAN INDIANS—PHOTOGRAPHS.) Moorhouse, Lee.
Group of
portraits and views, most from the Umatilla Reservation.
17 silver prints, most about
8 x 10 inches, unmounted; minor wear; most captioned on verso, each with one or more
inked photographer’s stamp.
Pendleton, OR, nd
[1,200/1,800]
Thomas Leander “Lee” Moorhouse (1850-1926) came west with his pioneer parents in
1861, and became an amateur photographer while serving as the Indian agent on the Umatilla
Indian Reservation in northeastern Oregon from 1889 to 1891. The Indian photographs in
this group are titled Chief of Police, Crow Agency * Chief Red Hawk * Turn-Water-Falls
(Wishram Tribe), Columbia River * Esther Umahollis * Winter on the Umatillia
Reservation * Wi-pa-ne-ta * Celilo Falls, Columbia River (2 views) * Sa-wat-tis, Umatillia
Reservation * Sees-yuse, Head Medicine Man of the Columbia River Tribe * Umatillea
Reservation, near Pendleton * An Old Crow Indian (2 copies) * [Untitled tipi]. The collec-
tion also includes 2 unrelated Moorhouse photographs, “Alice Archer in Jess of the Bar Z
Ranch,” and an untitled shot of what appear to be a white man and woman masquerading as
Chinese. Finally, the collection includes an untitled view of a family and three tipis by the
Detroit Photographic Company.
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