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Chief Washakie Historical Photographs 2
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This is perhaps one of the two best-known of all images of
Chief Washakie, photographed by the firm of Baker & Johnson
of Evanston, Wyoming, c. 1883-1885. The photographers
set up a makeshift studio with suspended backdrop on the grounds
of Fort Washakie, the home of the military garrison stationed
on l the Wind River Reservation. In 1883, President
Chester A. Arthur visited Fort Washakie and the reservation
while on a journey to view the Yellowstone country.
The Baker & Johnson photos may date to this period, although
most sources give c.1884-1885 as the date.
Washakie holds a catlinite pipe with wooden stem, with attached
eagle feathers. He also wears an eagle feather bonnet
with tail, his gorget & neckerchief, and a long cotton
checked shirt (possibly a calico). He also wears a sash
around his waist. Across his lap is a rifle.
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This is the other best-known Baker & Johnson photo, c.
1883-1885, and has been widely reproduced and used as a study
for numerous other prints and drawings.
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Another in the Baker & Johnson series, c. 1883-1885.
Washakie in a full-length frontal view has all the props--rifle,
pipe, headdress--as seen in the seated view on the previous
page.
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This photo from the Baker & Johnson firm, c. 1883-1885,
shows Washakie at the center of his "council."
In reality, most of the other Shoshones are male members of
Washakie's family as well as other head men within his own
band of followers. From left to right: 1. George
Wesaw, 2. George Washakie, 3. Sopahahamma, 4. Tigee,
5. Tibish Tigee (son of Tigee), 6. Dick Washakie [face is
hidden], 7. Biagoosa [or Bahhagoosha, hidden], 8. Matavish,
9. Bonzi, 10. Panzook, 12. Jim Washakie, and 11. Zagiva
[or Zagovatsie, lying down]. The two men numbered 13
& 14 are unidentified.
This side view of a standing Washakie shows him with the
pipe & bonnet of the photo above, but without the rifle.
His pants appear to machine sewn cotton. Pants like
these were distributed yearly to the Shoshones as part of
their annuity goods promised in the 1868 Treaty of Fort Bridger.
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Baker & Johnson studio portrait (from left to right,
first standing and then sitting) of Mahtovis [also spelled
Mahtavis or Mahtavish], Dick Washakie, Lopogun , Washakie
, Pauzook [Panzook from above?], Tigee, and Pehgoossa.
c.1883-1885. Some of the same individuals are depicted
in the photo immediately above.
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