Studio portraits of Clayton Jeffries, one of him as a youth, the other as an adult.
Clayton Jeffries (b. 1887) was a half-Occaneechi man from Alamance County, North Carolina. He was a significant figure in the effort to have the US Commissioner of Indian Affairs establish Federal Indian school for the Texas Settlement of Occaneechis.
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Photo Lot 89-39, Photographs of Clayton Jeffries, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Tribal affiliation and birthplace provided by the donor, Forest Hazel.
Donated by Forest Hazel, author of "The Occaneechi People: Experiencing a Cultural Renaissance," in 1988.