Copies of photographs depicting members of the Cook and Bradby families of the Pamunkey Reservation in Virginia, including some images of Pamunkey Indians with game or birds. There is also a photograph that include James Miles, Governor of Virginia, and a group that participated in the Jamestown Exposition in 1907.
Tecumseh Deerfoot Cook was chief of the Pamunkey tribe from 1942-1984.
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Photo lot R87-6, Tecumseh D. Cook Family photograph collection of Pamunkey Indians, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Digital surrogates available for several photographs.
Copy prints made by Smithsonian Institution, circa 1987.
Originals retained by Cook Family.
Captions furnished by Edward Bradby and Chief Tecumseh D. Cook of the Pamunkey Indian Reservation, Virginia.
Originals were loaned for copying by Chief Tecumseh D. Cook of the Pamunkey Indian Reservation King William County, Virginia, circa 1987.
Additional photographs of Pamunkey Indians can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 24 and the BAE historical negatives.
Photographs of Pamunkey Indians can be found in the National Museum of the American Indian Archives in the Mark Raymond Harrington Photograph Collection and the Daniel Sutherland Davidson prints and negatives.
List of captions with negative numbers available in repository.