Cheyenne man, Elk River or White Elk (Mo-a-yo-ha) and his wife
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.56072
label: Local Note
content: Erroneously labeled as Sioux on face of original print.
label: Local Note
content: Elk River is also mentioned in Grinnell's The Cheyenne Indians II, and The Fighting Cheyennes.
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Barthelmess, Christian
creator: label: Creator
content: Barthelmess, Christian
culture: label: Culture
content: Northern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Barthelmess, Christian
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Barthelmess at Fort Keogh during 1888-97 period.

"Elk River, his name, which was also borne by a member of the Southern Cheyenne tribe, was the Cheyenne name for the Yellowstone. For years Elk River was a familiar and respected figure around Fort Keogh...Elk River was in Dull Knife's village when it was destroyed by Mackenzie 1n 1876...

John Stands-in-Timber in August, 1962, told Father Peter Powell:...'Elk River was old when he enlisted in the scouts [i.e. Casey's scouts] and was said to be nearly a hundred when he died, about 1908'...He first enlisted as a scout in 1879, in Montana, under Miles, after which he went to Indian Territory. He re-enlisted on returning north...

The book Horse Catcher by Mari Sandozis based upon the lives of this man and his counterpart among among the Southern Cheyennes." -- Photographer on an Army Mule, pages 109-110
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1888-97
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Reproduced in Photographer on an Army Mule, by Maurice Frink with Casey Barthelmess, Norman, 1965, ff. page 104.
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content: Photographs