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Cheyenne Indian "Horse Road in fight with General Miles near 

 Red River," and another, the historic fight of the Cheyenne with 

 Forsyth's scouts at Beecher's Island on September 17, 1868, in which 

 Chief Roman Nose was killed. Another drawing depicts a Cheyenne 

 battle with soldiers under Lieutenant Henley, 6th Cavalry, on Smoky 

 Hill River, and one shows Indians running oil' cavalry horses at Fort 

 Dodge, 1865. 



A sketchbook containing crayon and pencil drawings of Indian 

 life on the Plains, made by a Cheyenne Indian named Buffalo Meat, 

 while he was a prisoner at Fort Marion, Fla., about 1875 was received 

 as a gift from Miss Julia Whiting of Middleburg, Va. 



A photograph of an oil painting of the Comanche cliief Yellow 

 Wolf, made in 1859 by Col. Arthur T. Lee, and a photograph of a draw- 

 ing made by Yellow Wolf were received through the courtesy of 

 Charles F. Hayes III, of the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, 

 Rochester, N. Y., which owns the originals. 



Negatives of four sketches of Missisauga Indians, tliree of Hurons 

 and two of Creek Indians, all drawn by Basil Hall in 1827-28, were 

 obtained from the Lilly Library, Indiana University, which owns 

 the original drawings. 



An important collection of photographic negatives and prints, taken 

 by Jesse Hastings Bratley in the period 1893-ca. 1903, while he was 

 teaching at Indian schools in the West, was lent by Francis V. Crane, 

 director of the Southeast Museum, Marathon, Fla. A total of 280 

 copy negatives were made and added to the Bureau files. Most of the 

 negatives relate to the Dakota Indians of Rosebud Reservation, S. 

 Dak.; the Havasupai of Cataract Canyon, Ariz.; and the Hopi of 

 Polacca, Ariz. There are also a few photographs of Salish Indians 

 of Puget Sound, and of Cheyenne and Arapaho from Contomnent, 

 Okla. 



A series of 36 negatives taken at the mouth of Windy River, north- 

 western extremity of Neultin Lake, southwestern Keewatm, Canada, 

 in 1947 shows Caribou Eskimo and a few Cree Indians. The negatives 

 include portraits; camp scenes showing food and hide preparation; 

 and views of transport by canoe and on foot with pack and dog travois. 

 They were made and donated by Dr. Francis Harper, Chapel Hill, 

 N.C. Dr. Harper also donated five negatives showing Poosepatuck 

 men and native fishing equipment, taken by him at the Poosepatuck 

 Reservation, Mastic, Long Island, in 1909 and 1910. 



A series of 11 photographs taken at the Poosepatuck Reservation, 

 Mastic, Long Island, showing members of the Poosepatuck tribe, and 

 views taken at the June meeting at Poosepatuck in 1912, were copied 

 from an album of snapshots owned by Walter B. Raynor, Patchogue, 

 N.Y. Two photographs of White men's hmiting camps having pal- 



