Call NumberX-31092Date1924 December 17SummarySitting portrait of Kesh Ke Kosh (Don Whistler), a Native American Sac (Sauk)and Fox. He wears a shirt and pants, a beaded necklace, and an eagle feather headdress.Physical Description1 photoprint ; 19 x 10 cm (7 x 4 in.)Born-Digital or AnalogAnalogSubjectFox IndiansIndians of North AmericaSauk IndiansWhistler, DonSac and Fox Nation.CollectionPhotographs - Western HistoryRelated MaterialImage File: ZZR710031092Type of MaterialPhotographic printsPortrait photographsDigital Version Created FromMax, 1980.NotesNewspaper label on back of print reads: "Kesh Ke Kosh, whose 'white' name is Don Whistler, is the first Indian to bear an important university museum post. He has been appointed assistant in the department of general ethnology at the University of Pennsylvania museum in Philadelphia and is to overhaul and rearrange the Indian collections there. Kesh Ke Kosh is a descendant of the Sac and Fox tribe of Oklahoma. His name means 'the hoof which has been cleft.' He became interested in ethnology while writing a history of his own tribe. - Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, New York."; Photoprint has been retouched and has irregular shape. Title supplied. R7100310927
Sac and Fox Indians, Kesh Ke Kosh (Don Whistler) (1924 December 17). Denver Public Library Digital Collections, accessed 10/02/2026, https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1036281
