Head and shoulders portrait of Chief Quanah Parker, a Native American Comanche chief led the last tribe in the Staked Plain to come into the reservation system. Parker wears a buckskin shirt with a neck scarf and animal fur wrapped braids.
Description
1 copy negative ; 13 x 10 cm. (5 x 4 in.); 1 photoprint ; 26 x 21 cm. (10 x 8 in.)
Subject
Comanche Indians--1870-1890; Indians of North America--1870-1890; Tribal chiefs--1870-1890; Parker, Quanah, 1845?-1911.
Format-Medium
Photograph
Source
Scribner's Magazine, Nov. 1905, p. 528
Rights Contact Information
Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History and Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, at photosales@denverlibrary.org.
Reproduction Available for Purchase
Yes (digital reproduction)
Related Material
Image File: ZZR710032235
Notes
Formerly F65.; Title supplied; hand-written on back of a photograph of a halftone photomechanical reproduction of a hand touched photo print: "(from Mrs Bertha A. Ross, Vernon, Texas) Chief Quanah (Parker)'s mother was a white woman."; R7100322356
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