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Topai, one of Quanah Parker's wives

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Call NumberX-32216CreatorSwett, Sergeant.SummaryPortrait of Topai, a Native American Comanche woman and wife of Quanah Parker, a Comanche Chief, who led the last tribe in the Staked Plain to come into the reservation system. She wears a patterned dress, shawl and braids tied with ribbons; Parker's monument shows in background, Post Oak Mission Cemetery, near Cache, Oklahoma.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 Mission Cemetery (Comanche County, Okla.)Monuments & memorials--Oklahoma--CacheSpouses--Oklahoma--CacheWomen--Oklahoma--CacheTopayParker, Quanah, 1845?-1911--FamilyParker, Quanah, 1845?-1911--Monuments.CollectionPhotographs - Western HistoryRelated MaterialImage File: ZZR710032216Type of MaterialFilm negativesPostcardsNotesCondition: Image has red ink staining. Formerly F29220. Postcard stamp printed on back: "AZO"; Title and photographer hand-lettered on original; hand-written on back of card: "Still alive, lives north of Cache, Okla." and "Sgt. Swett". R7100322160

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Rights Statementhttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/CreditDenver Public Library Special Collections, [call number]Digital Reproduction Available for PurchaseYes