Portrait of Shacknasty Jim, a Modoc man. A geneaological note and chart prepared by Patricia Easterla are on the verso of mount.
Shacknasty Jim (Shkeitko or Shok-Nos-Ta) was born in Northern California circa 1850 and died near Seneca, Missouri in 1881. He was chief of the Hot Creek band of Modoc and fought as a scout for the United States Army in the Modoc War of 1872-1873.
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Photo lot 78-22, Portrait of Shacknasty Jim, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Donated by Leonard L. Fryatt through Patricia Easterla, 1978.
Additional photographs of Shacknasty Jim held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 24 and the BAE historical negatives.