National Anthropological Archives

MS 4087 Notes concerning Sauvies Island

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS4087
Creators:
Waldron, Gary E.
Dates:
undated
Languages:
Undetermined
.
Physical Description:
2 Pages
1 Photograph
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Refers to Sauvies Island, used by the tribes of western Indians as their Council Island. Refers to (Chief ?) "Multnomah's tribes of the Wauna."

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
States that in 1913 there remained of the Molala only Chief Henry Yelkes, his wife Nell, and their son Fred who in 1915, after the death of his mother and the murder of his father, was the only Molala Indian left. Photo of Fred Yelkes accompanies the notes. [Copy Negative Number 56319.]

Administration

Custodial History
Previously titled "Notes."

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 4087, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

More Information

Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 4087
OPPS NEG 56319

Local Note

Local Note
Photo OPPS NEG 56319 found but not inventoried.


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Photographs Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Molala Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Plateau Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Multnomah, Chief Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Yelks, Henry, Chief Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Yelkes, Nell Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Yelkes, Fred Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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