Comanche woman, Tau Pay, last wife of Quanah Parker, standing at Quanah's grave site, Post Oak Cemetery near Lawton, Oklahoma, during a ceremony to dedicate the monument over Quanah's grave

Object Details

Scope and Contents

"Date 1848-9 Tau Pay - Last wife of Quanah taken at Q.P. grave (The dedication of the monument)," handwritten on reverse of print by Mrs Ella Cox Lutz.

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GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw347113dc1-21e9-486e-b85d-4ab4e9795de6

Local Numbers

OPPS NEG.57090

Local Note

Black and white copy negative

Place

Oklahoma -- Lawton (near)

Culture

Niuam (Comanche)

Indians of North America -- Great Plains

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Biographical / Historical

Description of dedication ceremony and date from Zoe A. Tilghman, Quanah The Eagle of the Comanches, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1938, page 192 and 194. Tilghman states that the inscription on the stone was written by Quanah's daughter, Neda Parker Birdsong.

Extent

1 Photograph (8x10 in)

Date

May 30 1930

Archival Repository

National Anthropological Archives

Type

Archival materials

Photographs

Genre/Form

Photographs

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Record ID

ebl-1628267668517-1628267670556-0

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