One Delaware woman and two girls
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.56920
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Names
content: Beaver, Sarah
label: Names
content: Hunter, Bessie
label: Names
content: Snake, Bessie
label: Names
content: Thomas, Jane
label: Names
content: Wilson, Jane
topic: label: Topic
content: Lenape
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
culture: label: Culture
content: Delaware -- Absentee
label: Culture
content: Lenape (Delaware)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
label: See more items in
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bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: In 1867 the Delaware moved from Kansas to the Cherokee Reservation, Indian Territory.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.

The girls were both classificatory granddaughters of the woman: B. H. was S. B.'s BrSoDa and J. W. was S.B.'s HuDaDa. J. W. married Jack Thomas (died 1932 at age 75), who was the first husband of S. B. Sarah Beaver was known by the Delaware nickname malata s 'mulatto'; phonotypically she appears part Negro. She raised the two girls together.

Date: ca 1910. (woman in center died February 24, 1914, at age 55; girl on right was 33 in 1933.)
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
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Left to right: Bessie Hunter (later Snake), Sarah Beaver, Jane Wilson (later Thomas).

Dress has traditional elements, but the girls especially must be close to every-day semi-accultrated style (print dresses, shoes).