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Photography -- Printing processes -- Albumen

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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Portrait of Qui-wi-sain-shish
Portrait of Qui-wi-sain-shish

Portrait of Qui-wi-sain-shish, 1862

 Item
Identifier: 1998.004.12
Scope and Contents

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