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Pamunkey Indian Tribe Photograph, ca. 1898-1899, Accession #11435, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
The Library purchased this collection from Beltrone and Co. of Keswick, VA on September 23, 1998.
This item is a 7.5 x 9.5 inch black and white photograph,
ca. 1891-1893 or ca. 1898-1899, of the Pamunkey Indian tribe
of Virginia at their King William County. The photographer was
"Orebough/Shelbyville, Maryland."
Also present in the photograph, in the right foreground and
seated beside a large dog, is John Garland Pollard
(1871-1937), future governor of Virginia (1930-1934). [For a
comparison photograph of Pollard four years later, see
accession number 7373, Virginia Constitutional Convention
1901-1902 Photograph Album, page 84, in the Special
Collections Department.] Pollard, at the time a Richmond
lawyer, was sent by the Smithsonian Institution during 1891-93
as its attache to study the Pamunkey Indians, prepare a census
of the tribe (110 members in 1893), and collect examples of
its arts and crafts. He published his findings in 1894 as
The Pamunkey Indians of
Virginia.