Memaloose Island. Ford, photographer (American, active 1900s) about 1900 View of a large pile of human bones at a Native American burial site on Memaloose Island. A man sits on a woodpile beside the bones, holding a skull in his lap. Two more men stand on either side of a monument dedicated to Victor Trevitt, who is buried on the island. (Recto, image) lower right, handwritten in the negative: "Mamaloose[sic] Island." (Recto, mount) lower center, below print, handwritten in black ink: "Mamaloose[sic] Isle. An old Indian Burying Ground / Victor Trevitt, a white man, wished to be buried / i
Memaloose Island. Ford, photographer (American, active 1900s) about 1900 View of a large pile of human bones at a Native American burial site on Memaloose Island. A man sits on a woodpile beside the bones, holding a skull in his lap. Two more men stand on either side of a monument dedicated to Victor Trevitt, who is buried on the island. (Recto, image) lower right, handwritten in the negative: "Mamaloose[sic] Island." (Recto, mount) lower center, below print, handwritten in black ink: "Mamaloose[sic] Isle. An old Indian Burying Ground / Victor Trevitt, a white man, wished to be buried / in the way of the Indians & this is his monument" Lower right, below right corner of print, handwritten in black ink: "16"
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