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.
Date
[between 1940 an 1970?]
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
Physical 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.
Source
Source: Scribner's Magazine, Nov. 1905, p. 528
Rights
Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
Reproduction Available for Purchase
Yes (digital reproduction)
Type of Material
Film negatives.; Photographic prints.; Portraits.; Imaged.; Image
