Studio Portrait of Daniel Webster or Black Eagle

Cultural Narrative: 

Photograph of Daniel Webster also known as Black Eagle posing for a studio portrait. In this photograph, Black Eagle is sitting holding a trade tomahawk. Black Eagle is the son of Wottolen. As a young warrior, he escaped from the c'aynim 'alikinwaaspa (Battle of Bear Paw) to take refuge with Sitting Bull in Canada. Reverse reads: “Black Eagle”

Community: 
Nimíipuu [Nez Perce]
Protocol: 
Nimíipuu [Nez Perce] Public Access
Category: 
Wars/Military/Conflict
Collections: 
Lucullus V. McWhorter
Original Date: 
2022
Creator: 
McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil, 1860-1944
Rights: 
No known copyright. Item went into public domain 70 years after the 1944 death of the creator. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/.
Source: 
Is found in PC 85, Lucullus Virgil McWhorter Photographs https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/pc85.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
Identifier: 
pc_085_b02_f16_008; pc_085_b02_f16_009
Subject: 
Warriors, Costume & adornment, Nez Perce--Wars, 1877, Black Eagle, Webster, Daniel, Bearpaw Battlefiled, Sitting Bull, Nez Perce
Type: 
Image
Format: 
JPG