Qui-Wi-Sain-Shish

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Portrait of Qui-wi-sain-shish, 1862

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Identifier: 1998.004.12

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Studio portrait of Qui-wi-sain-shish (English name: Bad Boy); Chief of Gull Lake Chippewas. Pictured seated, hair in 2 braids and a blanket draped over one shoulder. Who, to escape the vengeance of the Indians when they discovered his friendship for the whites, in the outbreak of 1862, was obliged to seek protection in Fort Ripley.

Dates: 1862

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Roger Blais collection of Sioux Uprising of 1862 photographs

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