six albumen photographs, most originally produced by Antonio Zeno Shindler unless otherwise noted, ranging in size from 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. to 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 in., on cream-colored mounts, 14 x 11 in. The sitters are misidentified in ink below each portrait.

The following portraits are included: Wa-in-ga, "Pipe Stem," a young Otoe chief. -- Da-nu-wa-in-ga, "Little Pipe," a young Otoe chief. -- Tshe-oang-eh-ki-hi, "Buffalo Chief," an Otoe chief. -- A group shot of Tshe-oang-eh-ki-hi, "Buffalo Chief," an Otoe Chief, dressed in clothes probably purchased for his role as member of the delegation, at left, Chun-eh-hoe, "Medicine Horse," an Otoe Chief, at center, and B. Barnabi, a half-breed US Indian Interpreter, at right. -- He-ka-ka Nang-zhe, "The Standing Elk," a Yankton Sioux warrior, taken by McClees Gallery, Washington, between December 1857-April 1858. -- Red Plume, a chief of the Black Feet Indians. Shindler copied this from an original daguerreotype by John H. Fitzgibbon, St. Louis, MO, 1851-1852.

(See Native American Photography at the Smithsonian: The Shindler Catalogue, Paula Richardson Fleming, 2003)