Chemawa Indian School Band · Washington County Heritage Online

Title: Chemawa Indian School Band
Description: A group portrait of the boys in the Chemawa Indian School band, taken soon after the school relocated to Chemawa from Forest Grove in 1885. The students hold their instruments as if they were performing, probably as a posed demonstration for the camera. From left to right, they hold four trumpets (and/or bugles); three euphoniums or similar brass instruments; a tuba; a large drum with cymbal; and a snare drum. The student holding the large drum is probably James Stewart, Nez Perce. The four students on the left may be the same boys noted as being "buglers" on the school roster (not necessarily in this order): George Piute, Warm Springs; George Brown, Tlingit; Philip Jones, Tlingit; and George Blake, Tlingit. For another photograph taken on the same day, see image WCMss261_001_157.
Identifier: WCMss261_001_176
Date: 1885
Spatial Coverage: Salem, Oregon
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-OKLR/1.0/
Source: Native American Collection, 1842-1955 (WCMss.261), Whitman College and Northwest Archives, Walla Walla, WA.
Subject: Off-reservation boarding schools; Native American Studies; Chemawa Indian School
Type: Still Image