"White Hair. Principal Chief of Osages. Fort Smith, Ark., 9 mo./65."
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.47976
label: Local Note
content: Cf. BAE Negative Number 4159-c, (group) in which identified as "Little White Hair Chief."
label: Local Note
content: See Frank F. Finney, "Old Osage Customs Die with the Last Pah-Hue-Skah," The Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 36, Number 2, Summer, 1958, pages 131-136.
label: Local Note
content: Judging from the above article, this photograph is apparently that of the last hereditary chief of the Osage tribe--the White Hair who died in 1869 (Chief Little White Hair). The first was "Payouska" (sketched by St. Memin in 1804--BAE Negative 4090). The last bearer of this name died in 1894 (portrait in Oklahoma Historical Society reprod. Finney, 1958, opposite page 6). The city of Pawhuska, Oklahoma was named for him. He was never principal chief of his tribe, for "Little White Hair, the last member of the family to hold the head chieftainship...opposed sale of the Osage Kansas lands and the removal of the tribe to the Indian Territory. To supplant and nullify the authority and influence of Little White Hair, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs created a new office for the tribe and recognized Joseph Paw-ne-no-pah-she, commonly known as 'Big Hill Joe,' as Governor of the Osages.
label: Local Note
content: Chief White Hair died in 1869, and after much discord among them..., the Osages accepted the Goverment's choice, and acknowledged Paw-ne-no-pah-she as their governor and head chief." --Finney, 1958, pages 131-32.
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
culture: label: Culture
content: Osage
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (3 3/4x6 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: Sep 1865
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
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content: Photographs