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Indian girls at Parker monument

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Call NumberX-32181CreatorSwett, Sergeant.SummaryEva Wymnerchy, a Native American Comanche young woman, signs "Nearer My God to Thee" dressed in a fringed dress with leggings, moccasins and a beaded headband, Post Oak Mission Cemetery, near Cache, Oklahoma. A group of girls and young women wearing white dresses with dark neckties sing in front of a obelisk monument of Quanah Parker, a Comanche Chief, who led the last tribe in the Staked Plains to come into the reservation system.Physical Description1 photonegative ; 5 x 4 cm (13 x 10 in.); 1 photoprint (postcard) ; 14 x 9 cm (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)Born-Digital or AnalogAnalogSubjectComanche Indians--Oklahoma--CacheIndians of North America--Oklahoma--CacheCache (Okla.)Post Oak Cemetery (Comanche County, Okla.)Clothing & dress--Oklahoma--CacheGirls--Oklahoma--CacheMonuments & memorials--Oklahoma--CacheSign language--Oklahoma--CacheSinging--Oklahoma--CacheTeenagers--Oklahoma--CacheParker, Quanah, 1845?-1911--MonumentsWymnerchy, Eva.CollectionPhotographs - Western HistoryRelated MaterialImage File: ZZR710032181Type of MaterialFilm negativesPostcardsNotesCondition: Image has red ink staining. Formerly F42588. Postcard stamp printed on back: "AZO"; Title and photographer hand-lettered on original; hand-written on back of card: "Eva Wymnerchy, Comanche girl interpreting "Nearer My God to Thee" in Indian sign language" and "Sgt. Swett". R7100321813

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