W. H. Thomas
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.1063 V
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Names
content: Wil-Usdi
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee (adopted)
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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bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Adopted white chief. Adopted by Cherokee Chief Yonaguska as his son, and after death of Yonaguska became chief, serving until his retirement from active service. See 19th Annual Report, Part I, Plate 9, opposite page 160.

Col. William Holland Thomas or Wil-Usdi (1805-1893). A white man who was adopted as the son of the Cherokee Chief Yonaguska. After the death of Yonaguska in April, 1939 Col. Thomas became chief of the tribe.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (5x8 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1858
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Photographs
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content: Photographs