Delaware woman and her daughter
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.56928
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Names
content: Bobb, Jennie
label: Names
content: Longhat, Nellie
topic: label: Topic
content: Lenape
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
culture: label: Culture
content: Delaware -- Absentee
label: Culture
content: Lenape (Delaware)
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: In 1867 the Delaware moved from Kansas to the Cherokee Reservation, Indian Territory. Those involved in the move became known as the Delaware (registered) or the Delaware (Cherokee). The others became known as the Delaware (absentee). "Registered" and "absentee" are not aboriginal terms.

Jennie Bobb (tuk wi ma nsi "Black-Walnut-Tree") died August 12, 1918 at a reported age of 51, but she is also said to have been 55 in 1915 (Anadarko Agency, Probate records, W 338 and W 615).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca 1910
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Digital surrogate produced from reference copy print
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Left to right: Jennie Bobb and her daughter Nellie Longhat.

The women are dressed to the teeth in traditional Delaware style. Everything they are wearing, including all their jewelry, is said to have been made by themselves. (Martha Ellis, Anadarko, 1968; she had seen the picture before).