Mutilated corpse of Sergeant Frederick Wyllyams
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: GN.2860 S 2
label: Supplement/Special Issue Entry
content: Gill, De Lancey W. Portrait (Profile) of Baachigun or Ben Road-Traveler, Interpreter, Nephew of Sitting Bull APR 1898
name: label: Creator
content: Bell, William A.
label: Creator
content: Calhoun, Maj
creator: label: Creator
content: Bell, William A.
label: Creator
content: Calhoun, Maj
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Bell, William A.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Sergeant Frederick Wyllyams, an immigrant from England, belonged to Troop G, Seventh U.S. Cavalry. He was killed and mutilated by a mixed band of Sioux, Arapaho and Cheyenne Indians near Fort Wallace, Kansas, 1867. The photograph was taken by Wyllams' friend, Major Calhoun, who sent the photograph to President Andrew Johnson. The ritual slashes on Wyllyams' body were done after he was killed to indicate the tribal affiliation of the killer. (Information from "Little Bighorn Remembered" by Herman Viola, page 84.)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (glass copy negative)
unitdate: label: Date
content: Jun 26 1867
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: See OPPS NEG 55950
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: See "New Tracks in North America", by William A. Bell, London, 1867.
label: Bibliography
content: Also published in "Little Bighorn Remembered" by Herman Viola, 1999, page 84.
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content: Photographs