5 ½ x7 bound black paper photograph album containing 11 hand colored photographs. Cover labeled “Photographs Among the Cheyennes” including a small hand drawn illustration of a tepee and pipe. Signature on the back cover “J.E. Tuell, Lamedeer, Mont.” using a white pen. Descriptive text by photographs written in black pen. Photograph #7 is missing from the album. Photographs cited below are found in “Women and Warriors of the Plains” “The Pioneer Photography of Julia E. Tuell” by Dan Aadland, MACMILLAN, New York, NY; 1996

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“A Tongue River Camp” “Cheyenne Indians” (Tepees, tent & wagons in a draw below the hills)

“Two Moons” Chief of the Cheyenne Indians, and one who led part of the tribe in General Custer’s massacre- June 25, 1876” (copy of this photo: Aadland page 112)

“Gen. Custer’s battleground, The cross marks the exact spot where the Gen. fell. The Little-Big-Horn can be seen in the distance. Tom Custer’s tombstone is in the foreground.” (Wooden cross and stone grave markers on the prairie. Aadland page 114)

“Drying beef on poles, Cheyenne"

“A Cheyenne Indian Maiden” (Aadland page 42)

“A medicine man’s home. The small circular structure is known as a medicine lodge in which several enter & sweat from heated stones. A prayer is then offered to the buffalo head” (Two Indian women in front of a tepee, wearing long dresses & shawls.Between them stands an Indian man in pants and a headdress)

"Missing Photo—“A typical Cheyenne Medicine Man among the tribe of Cheyennes ‘Red Cherries’” (possibly Aadland page 144?)

“The native home” (A tepee & several tents on the prairie surrounded by hills, one Indian standing & several people sitting, Aadland page 81)

“The young papoose is carried in such sacks until the age of 3 months. Many are solid beads and very costly”

“The medicine dress. The red beads are berries dried and suppose to hold great charms” (Young Indian boy in a headdress and 5 strands of beads around his neck)

“Indian children at play” “(Cheyennes)” (four Indian children in the water of a stream and two sitting on the bank near a tepee) (Aadland page 102, and cover of American Indian Magazine 1919)

“A camp on the Lamedeer” (several tents & tepees near a river with hills in the background.)