Jimmie Billy, George Osceola, and Buffalo Tiger; U. S. Capitol in background
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.44331 A
label: Local Note
content: Mimeographed sheet attached to borrowed print reads: "Wide World Photo / Please Credit / B-24711 / Under Control / Three Seminole Indians from Florida rest near the Capitol during a visit to Washington, D. C., for Senate sub-committee hearings on legislation affecting Federal control of Indians. In the center is George Osceola, 80-year-old tribal councilman [error, not a tribal councilman --WCS] who walked around barefooted in 50-degree temperature. At left is Jimmie Billy, a junior medicine man, and at right, Buffalo Tiger, interpreter. --Wide World Photo. II40-rw-3/2/54 wx-stf-hg fs52"
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Names
content: hotalki ma i.
label: Names
content: simano laha ci
place: label: Place
content: D. C. -- Washington
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
culture: label: Culture
content: Seminole
setName: label: See more items in
content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: "George Osceola, Age 84, 1954, Died at Brighton [Res.] Aug. 4, 1954." --ETK
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (4 1/2x6 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: Mar 2 1954
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Left to right: Jimmie Billy, Indian name hotalki ma i, Wind sib, Mikasuki; George Osceola, Indian name simano laha ci (in Mikasuki), Deer sib, Cow Creek; Buffalo Tiger, Mikasuki. This occasion (March 1&2, 1954) was one of the first appearances of Seminole turbans and leggings, ater a lapse of many years. --WCS