Anderson, George T Webber, J. C

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Digital surrogate produced from reference copy printIn 1867 the Delaware moved from Kansas to the Cherokee Reservation, Indian Territory. Those involved in the move became known as the Delaware (registered) or the Delaware (Cherokee). The others became known as the Delaware (absentee). "Registered" and "absentee" are not aboriginal terms.See Negative 56929. Anderson was a full-blood Delaware; Webber's mother was part Munsee and part Delaware, but his father was an enrolled Cherokee of part Negro ancestry. Ollie Anderson claims that all of Webber's Delaware clothing in this picture was lent by her husband, G. T. Anderson.Copied (June 1968) from print owned by Ollie Anderson, Dewey, Oklahoma. Negative received from Ives Goddard, July, 1970.Black and white copy negativeLeft to right, George T. Anderson (kwackipahki kamen) and J. C. Webber (wi t a p ano xwe).Negative 56930, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian InstitutionNational Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland

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