Spokane Chief Lot, Wellpinit, Washington,1900

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Description: 

Older man in decorated, hooded coat sits for portrait in wheeled desk chair; he wears a bow sheath and holds a pipe. Note from unidentified source: Chief Lot, Wellpinit, c. 1900. His Indian name translates to "Walk-on-striped-face", per Robert Sherwood & Vi Seymour, 1/98. Photographer possibly Clair Hunt, who has been attributed photographer in other Chief Lot photographs. Note from unidentified source: Lot (Whistle-Possum), Chief of the Lower Spokanes until his death in 1902.

People: 
Chief Lot Whistle-Possum, Walked-on-striped-face
Protocol: 
Spokan Community Public Access, University of Washington Libraries Public Access
Community: 
spoqín (Spokan), University of Washington Libraries
Category: 
Lifeways
Collections: 
American Indians of the PNW (Images)
Original Date: 
1900
Contributor: 
Clair Hunt
Rights: 
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/; http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/copyrights.html
Source: 
Chappie Dunning; University of Washington Libraries; Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture; Special Collections
Identifier: 
L95-39.18
Subject: 
Lot, Spokane chief, d. 1902, Portraits--Washington (State), Spokane Indians--Clothing & dress
Type: 
Photograph, Image
Format: 
Image/JPEG