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Timothy O'Sullivan — Group of Pah-Ute Indians, Nevada
Timothy O'Sullivan

Group of Pah-Ute Indians, Nevada

1871

Rare ethnographic documentation from the Wheeler Survey shows Pah-Ute people in their Nevada homeland during a period of intense cultural disruption. O'Sullivan's group portrait provides invaluable historical evidence of Native American life during the era of Western territorial surveys.

Medium
Albumen print, from the album "Geographical & Geological Explorations & Surveys West of the 100th Meridian," vol. 1

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Timothy O'Sullivan, Group of Pah-Ute Indians, Nevada, 1871

Rare ethnographic documentation from the Wheeler Survey shows Pah-Ute people in their Nevada homeland during a period of intense cultural disruption. O'Sullivan's group portrait provides invaluable historical evidence of Native American life during the era of Western territorial surveys.

Medium
Albumen print, from the album "Geographical & Geological Explorations & Surveys West of the 100th Meridian," vol. 1
Year
1871
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

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Albumen Print, Documentary, 19th Century, American, Group, Historical, Nevada, Portrait, Ethnographic, Black and White

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