Red Curlew Butchering Government Steers at the Nespelem Agency, 1893

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Red Curlew Butchering Government Steers at the Nespelem Agency, 1893

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Erskine Wood Photograph from Chief Joseph's Camp at Nespelem, WA, Colville Reservation, 1893.

"Haweet haweet Ilpilp (Red Curlew) butchering gov't steers Nespilem - 1893 or '94" (EW, later note.) See EW journal entry for November 20, 1893: "Then some of the Indians got on their horses and dragged the steers out of the corrall and then they commenced to butcher them and I was sneaking around taking pictures I shot off all I had in the camera six and then I loaded her up and took some more" See also EW letter of 11/22/93: "We killed six steers yesterday and I got quite a few pictures of them butchering and dividing the meat."

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Wood, Erskine

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1893-11-20

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