Unidentified Native American boy

Title

Unidentified Native American boy

Description

A portrait of an unidentified Native American boy. He probably attended Chemawa School and/or the Indian Training School at Forest Grove. He is wearing the military-style school uniform used at Chemawa. The photograph is a small, 85mm x 185mm image in carte-de-visite format. It is stamped and dated on the verso of the photograph as having been taken by W. P. Johnson of Salem in October, 1887.

Creator

W. P. Johnson, photographer, Salem, Oregon

Subject

Off-reservation boarding schools
Native American Studies
Chemawa Indian School

Identifier

PUApic_008384.jpg

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Source

Forest Grove Indian School Collection, Pacific University Archives

Type

Still Image

Other Media

[Back:] W. P. Johnson, Artist, Commerical Street, Salem, Oregon. Oct 1887.