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Object Number
995-26-00/1.12
Display Title
Group of Mission Indian captains
Descriptions
Object Description
Written on album page: "Captains of the various sub-bands, groups, and villages gathered / at Pala / When we told them that altho we were friends of 'the Queen', we were not Govenment officers, and could not / promise what the Government would do - there was a general drooping of countenance and sadness fell over the / company. But I added at once that we had come to look into their faces and take their hands, and hear direct from / them what had happened to them since the Queen was with them, - and then go direct to the Great Father at / Washington and tell him, and ask him, to do what he could. Upon this their countenances at once brightened / and from all sides they said Si, Signor - Si, Si, Signor, - and freely told us their pathetic story."
Department
Photographic
Date
1885
Artist
Joshua W. Davis
Culture
- Mission
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
California
/
San Diego County
/
Pala
Materials
Print, black and white adhered to Album
Dimensions
Overall: 15.875 × 20.6375 cm (6 1/4 × 8 1/8 in.)
Label on object
See notes and histories for inscriptions
Provenance
Donor
Friends of the Lincoln Library
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