Charles Whiteman poses outdoors. He was captured by the Utes at age 2 and traded to the Arapahos. He lived as an Arapaho during his lifetime. He holds a hatched pipe. He wears a fur pelt bandolier, a beaded hair pipe vest, a scarf around his neck. scarves over his braids, and a beaded feather headdress.
Date
[between 1890 and 1920?]
Notes
Formerly F3.; Title, "7. He is in fact a white man, as he was captured from a raided emigrant train by the Utes and traded to the Arapahoes when about 2 years old. He is about 60 years old and has lived his life an Indian married to an Arapahoe squaw and speaks very little English", and "Ind- Arapahoe. Biog- Whiteman, Charlie" hand-written on back of print.; R7100323598
Description
1 copy negative : nitrate ; 13 x 10 cm. (5 x 4 in.); 1 photoprint ; 25 x 17 cm. (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)
Subject
Arapaho Indians--1890-1920.; Indians of North America--1890-1920.; Clothing & dress--1890-1920.; Tomahawks--1890-1920.; Whiteman, Charles.
Rights Statement
Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
