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Object Number
995-26-00/1.24
Display Title
Graves in trees
Descriptions
Object Description
Written on album page: "Graves in Trees. / As we were preparing to take this picture -accompanied by the Government's / Agent's wife, herself an Educated Indian -the woman had left her company, coming to / the agency, and come down the hill, and began crying. 'My son, my son, why did you not / die on the battle field, rather than lie here to be made sport of by strangers, -(as the / Agent's wife afterward interpreted it to us)."
Department
Photographic
Date
1880-1900
Artist
Joshua W. Davis
Culture
- Native North American styles
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
Materials
Print, black and white adhered to Album
Dimensions
Overall: 15.24 × 20.32 cm (6 × 8 in.)
Label on object
See notes and histories for inscriptions
Provenance
Donor
Friends of the Lincoln Library
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