Chief, Me-Nan-Ek of the Yakima

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Description: 

Photograph shows Chief Me-Nan-Ek, chief of the Yakama Indians, with Yakama Indian men and women, standing in from of a tipi. The women are holding beaded handbags

People: 
Chief Me-Nan-Ek
Community: 
Library of Congress, Yakama
Protocol: 
Library of Congress Public Access, Yakama Community Public Access
Category: 
Lifeways
Keywords: 
ACLS 2018, tipis, handbags
Original Date Description: 
1908
Original Date: 
1908
Creator: 
Gifford, Benjamin A.
Rights: 
No known restrictions on publication. No renewal in Copyright office. It is the user's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division's collections.
Source: 
LOT 12871, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington D.C. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.55913/
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Identifier: 
LC-DIG-ppmsca-55913
Subject: 
Indians of North America, Portrait photographs, Clothing & dress, Gelatin silver prints, Group portraits, Tipis, 1900-1910, Northwest, Pacific, Yakama Indians, Tribal chiefs
Type: 
Image
Format: 
JPG