Portrait of Kiowa woman, "Mabonia"
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.42933 G
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Names
content: Dodle-Bay
label: Names
content: Mah'-bon-ee
label: Names
content: Rowell, Maude
place: label: Place
content: Oklahoma -- Kiowa Reservation
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (4 1/2x6 1/2 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca 1894
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Photographs
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content: Photographs
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content: Standing by draped pedestal. Native costume. Studio of George W. Bretz, Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

Maude Rowell, daughter of man Ay-o-tay and woman Zone'tay, granddaughter of Mexican captive Quoe-yaut, (father of Ay-o-tay) niece of Jimmy Quoetone, second cousin of Guy Quoetone. Born about 1880, married at early age (probably about the time this picture was taken) to Calvin Kauley who was at that time a member of the famous "L Troop" made up of Indians at Fort Sill. Had the following children by him: Gilbert, Susie, Mattie and Fritz Kauley. Divorced Calvin Kauley and married Dr James Frederick Rowell who was visiting on the reservation from Stamford, Connecticut. Had the following children by Dr Rowell: Dorothy (mother of Dr Everett R. Rhoades) Arletta, May, Charles, William, (died as a child), and Edith. The name of Mahbonee came from her step-father who was a Comanche, and is a Comanche name. This name was given to her when she was a student in the early Indian School at Fort Sill. As was the custom in those days she took another name as she reached adulthood, and was known as Dodle-Bay.' She was well known for her beauty and because of the change from a teepee Indian to a well respected woman of the community. She died in 1927, about 47 yr. of age, apparently the result of a tumor of the spine. Her birth-place is unknown, there is some tradition that she was born in a camp somewhere in Kansas. It would seen unlikely if her birthdate is in 1880, however, if she were born in the early 1870's this would be very plausible. It is possible she was born near Fort Sill. She is buried beside Dr James F. Rowell (who died in 1951) in the Kiowa Indian Mt. Scott Methodist cemetery near Lake Lawtonka. --Letter of Dr E. R. Rhoades (part Kiowa), Oklahoma City, 3/28/60

Mah'-bon-ee or Maude Rowell. Died 1927. Buried at Mt. Scott Kiowa Cemetery. Married Dr Rowell, an M. D. from Connecticut, ca 1902. Dr Rowell came to Oklahoma for his health. Operated trading post north of Fort Sill ca. 1902-3. Dr Rowell died ca. 1952-53, in his 80s. --Information from Dr Everett R. Rhoades, MD., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, November 5, 1959. (grandson of Mah'-bon-ee.)