Playing Indians

Title

Playing Indians

Description

Women and children from the Ennis, Landess and Ingram families of Oregon, "playing Indians," according to a note on the back of the photograph. They are posed in clothing that they apparently believed looked Native American. The older children have blankets around their shoulders, and the boys have feathers in their hats and hold guns. Three girls wear skirts and have their heads covered; two or three small children play in the foreground. One girl kneels with a hatchet, looking at a tree. A triangular heap of tree branches, which may have been intended to look like a tipi, appears in the background.

[Transcription of notes on back of photograph:] Playing Indians. Nancy Ennis Johnson & children. Martha Ennis Landess. L to rt stdg: Nancy Johnson; Arthur Landess; Claude Johnson; Martha Landess; Kezia Ingram. Lower: Adrian Johnson; Ethel Johnson; Josie Landess; Victor & Virgil Landess twins; Bertha Landess. Nancy and Martha Ennis were daughters of R. K. Ennis and his wife, Eathalinda Ingram Ennis, dau of William Ingram, Pioneers of 1852. Kezia Ingram - daur of Samuel P. Ingram, son of William Ingram & wife Mary Wheeler Ingram. Nancy Ennis - Mother of Ethel Johnson Moore.

Identifier

WCMpic_000738

Subject

Family recreation

Stereotypes (Social psychology)

Photography of children

Johnson, Nancy Ennis

Landess, Martha

Landess, Arthur

Johnson, Claude

Ingram, Kezia

Johnson, Adrian

Johnson, Ethel

Landess, Josie

Landess Victor

Landess, Virgil

Landess, Bertha

Cultural Studies

Local & State History

Social History

Sociology

Redface

Spatial Coverage

Washington County, Oregon

Language

English

Date Created

circa 1900

Date

1900

Medium

copy prints

Rights

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Type

Still Image

Source

Washington County Museum