Wo-a-la-na-ka-na-ka, Bear Eating Acorns Up a Tree (Or George Gomez, US Interpreter)

A. Zeno Shindler (1823-1899)

Date

1869
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Albumen silver print
Dimensions

Image: 7 7/16 x 5 in.
Mount: 8 3/8 x 6 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
l.l. in image: Sac & Fox.14a
Mount Verso:
u.c. printed on paper label: 396, 691, 701. WAH-PAH-NAH-KA-NA-KAH. Bear Eating Acorns \ Up a Tree, or Geo. Gomez. \ A Mexican by birth, and interpreter for the Sacs \ and Foxes since 1858. Was sold to the Comanches \ when thirteen years of age, but ran away and joined \ the Kickapoos. Was captured again by the Coman- \ ches while he was out with the Kickapoos hunting, \ but was allowed to escape and rejoin his Indian \ friends. Drove Government teams for a while be- \ tween Forts Leavenworth and Kearney. In 1852 \ joined the Sacs and Foxes, and participated in some \ of their battles on the plains. \ He has been married into the following tribes: Cad- \ does, Kickapoos, Pawnees, Seminoles,Shawnees, Pot- \ tawatomies, Winnebagoes, Iowas, and Sacs and Foxes \ of Missouri; and speaks the languages of the Creeks, \ Caddo, Comanche, Pottawatomie, Kickapoo, Sac and \ Fox, Pawnee, Iowa, and Winnebago, besides English \ and Spanish.
c. in graphite: 130. \ Neg. No. 635
Collection Name

Bureau of American Ethnology Collection
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

P1967.2806
Copyright

Public domain

Location: Off view

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