B. Z. Gannaway

[grahamew]

Photographer who worked at 140 Garrison Avenue, Fort Smith, Arkansas from about 1870. Previously worked in Tennessee through the late 1850s and 1860s. I'm guessing these are early-mid 70s.


Pete Lauke/Laske(?)


Unidentified


Twelve O'Clock


Man Afraid of his Wife


Step and Fetch It/Going Snake


Peter Lauke(?)


Comanche (?) and Interpreter


Black Star (Comanche chief)


Weary (Wichita)


Pichi (Wichita)


Tewakina/Tawakoni Jim (Wichita)


Kichi ka Tonga (?) (Wichita)


Creeks


Choctaw Boys

Clearly, some of the names given to the Osages are bastardizations based on their actual names or nicknames given by the local whites, but is it just me or does Kichi ka Tonga (sic) bears more than a passing resemblance to the Penateka Comanche Esa-Havey/Milky Way, photographed by Gardner in 1872?

[Dietmar]

Wow! Thanks Grahame, I´ve never seen these photos before. Nor have I heard much of Gannaway.

I see a resemblance in the Kichi ka Tonga photo as well, but I wouldn´t swear it´s Esa Havey. He has that typical cut hair on the right side that Kiowas usually have. The ear ornaments and the ring on his finger are also very similar to Esa Havey.

[shan]

I'd like to thanks you too Grahame, what a find, I to have never seen those photos before, I also agree with you and Dietmar that Kichi ka Tonga looks to be the same man, the way he holds his mouth is very distinctive and can be seen all three photos.

I'm pretty sure a couple of these men are Pawnees, particularly Man afraid of his Wife, { what a great name, I wonder if it is a good translation, } the moccasins he wears look very like the traditional Pawnee type.

Some of the photos seem pretty early--1870--75ish have you any information about them, are there any more, and where did you come across them?

Low Dog

[grahamew]

Heritage Auctions for most; I don't remember where the other two came from. "Twelve O'Clock" can be seen in a group photo posted on the Osage thread. Makes me wonder how many moe Gannaways are out there...

[grahamew]

Digging up an old thread, via an email to Plains Indian Seminar 2, I've recently come across an article by the inestimable Mike Cowdrey on early photographs of Plains Indians with specific reference to Gannaway. See www.ha.com/common/content.php?content=burrell

The photographs were taken at the Fort Smith Treaty conference in 1865 and he identifies these particular Comanches as allies of the Confederacy in his email:

"I find this information, from the man who recruited the Comanche, Thomas F. Anderson ("The Indian Territory, 1861 to 1865," in Confederate Veteran, Vol. IV, No. 3, March, 1896):

In the summer of 1862, I was sent out west to enlist for the Confederacy, and succeeded in raising one battalion of Osages, Major Broke Arm, one large company of Caddoes and Arrapahoes, Capt. George Washington, and one company of Comanches, Capt. Esopah or Esc Habbe, their Chief. All of these reported to Gen. Watie and were of good service to us, as they rambled between Kansas and the Texas Panhandle and prevented any invasion from Kansas, which otherwise would undoubtedly have taken place. After the Pea Ridge fight, Gen. Price's Missourians and the Third Louisiana Regiment were ordered east of the Mississippi River, and we were left to ourselves, all Indians, except Wills' Battalion and a Texas infantry regiment, which were stationed at our depot of supplies and saw no fighting. "

However, there he identifies the picture I've labelled 'Creeks' as one of a Comanche woman and unidentified men. He doesn't mention the Gannaway picture of Kichi ka Tonga (who I'm still in two minds about) but does include the Gardner photo of Esahavey-(MilkyWay), who was known as Captain Esopah,as well as the following photographs which haven't been posted here (and which I hope he doesn't mind me posting!):


Comanche chief and Colonel Lee; Cowdrey points out that this is usually attributed to Soule, but he thinks it's one of Gannaway's Fort Smith series.

Comanche woman: