Image / Donald McKay, Chief of the Warm Spring Indians

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Title: Donald McKay, Chief of the Warm Spring Indians
Contributor: Thomas Houseworth & Co
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1874 and 1886]
Publication Information: San Francisco : Houseworth's Celebrities
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Waist-length portrait.
2013-0055.
Born in 1836, in Oregon, to fur trader Thomas McKay and Cayuse woman. Served as Captain of the Warm Springs Scouts during Modoc War. Embarked on career with Wild West Shows. Settled in the Umatilla Indian Reservation, died in 1892.
Type: image
Format: Portraits.
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on cabinet card ; 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001492007CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: McKay, Donald--Portraits
Cayuse Indians--California--San Francisco--Photographs
Military scouts--California
Photographic prints
Portrait photographs
Cabinet card photographs
Place: California
San Francisco

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