Allottee 2229 Digitization Project

CONTRIBUTE TO THE OSAGE NATION MUSEUM'S GROWING ARCHIVE

The Osage Nation Museum (ONM) is sending a call out to all Wahzhazhe citizens to contribute to the nation’s archive of photographs and biographies of Osage original allottees*.

The Allottee 2229 Digitization Project is an effort to add to the more than 900 photographs that former museum director Kathryn RedCorn and her team collected during the early 2000s for her landmark exhibit 2229.

SUBMIT ONLINE

Please use the buttons below to submit biographical information and up to five digital images of the Osage allottee for inclusion in this project. Please note that the digital image files must be scanned at 600 dpi or higher and should be uploaded as a .jpg or .tiff file. Please do not send screenshots or take a photo of an original photograph. IF YOU NEED HELP SCANNING A PHOTOGRAPH, PLEASE CONTACT THE OSAGE NATION MUSEUM. IMAGES NOT PROVIDED AT 600 dpi OR HIGHER CANNOT BE PROCESSED.

SUBMIT A BIOGRAPHY HERE

SUBMIT AN IMAGE HERE

SUBMIT IN-PERSON | 2229 Gathering Place

Stop by the ONM to share your family’s allottee history with Kathryn Red Corn and Julia Lookout. Kathryn Red Corn is the former director of the ONM and the curator of the original 2229 exhibition. She has served on the Pawhuska Five-Man Board and the Osage Minerals Council for two terms. Julia Lookout enjoyed a long career in the travel industry, often working abroad and serving as an ambassador for the United States Department of Commerce. She is a lady singer and the granddaughter of F. Morris Lookout, the oldest grandchild of the Osage Nation’s last Hereditary Chief, Fred Lookout, and his wife, Julia Pryor Lookout, her namesake.

Starting: April 2, 2024

When: Tuesdays-Thursdays

10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Left to right: Mo-e-kah-shah (Joseph Kemohah) [Allottee #657]; He-mo-sah (John Kemohah) [Allottee #656]. Osage Nation Museum, Image courtesy of Mary Brasier [P01-0041].

Left to right: Unknown child on cradleboard; Eliza Bigheart Tall Chief [Allottee #341]; Unknown. Osage Nation Museum [P01-0005].

Left to right: Josephine Claremore Walker; Elizabeth Pitts [Allottee #2216]. Osage Nation Museum, Image courtesy of Mary Brasier [P01-0043].

Nora Prudom Dickey McGill Jarrell [Allottee #1707]. Osage Nation Museum [P01-0259].

Front row, left to right: Me-se-che-he (Rosa Shunk) [Allottee #34]; Dora Penn [Allottee #822]; Unknown. Back row: Unknown. Osage Nation Museum [P01-0335].

Front row, left to right: Roscoe Conklin [Allottee #140]; Num-pah-q-ah (Theodore R. Harvey) [Allottee #49]. Back row, left to right: Clarence Gray [Allottee #660]; Gurney Miller [Allottee #207]. Osage Nation Museum [P01-0446].

Moh-e-kah-moie [Allottee #121]. Osage Nation Museum [P01-0782].

John Little Coon [Allottee #132]. Osage Nation Museum [P01-0878a].

Left to right: Hlu-ah-to-me (Mary Blackbird Newalla Cole) [Allottee #82]; Wah-ses-tah-shin-kah (John Blackbird) [Allottee #81]. Osage Nation Museum [P01-0911].

Left to right: Maynard Revard [Allottee #2220]; Tom Tinker [Allottee #1994]. Osage Nation Museum [P01-2387].

Left to right: Daniel West [Allottee #77]; Hum-pah-to-kah (Elda Whitehorn Webb Martin West) [Allottee #409]. Osage Nation Museum [P01-3141].

Jasper Rogers [Allottee #1828]. Osage Nation Museum, Image courtesy of Jay Askew [P01-3346].

Wah-sop-py-wah-kah (Mary Pappin Red Eagle) [Allottee #73]. Osage Nation Museum [P01-3353].

Joseph Riddle [Allottee #1792]. Osage Nation Museum [P01-3828].

Bertha Dell Rogers McDowell [Allottee #1833]. Osage Nation Museum, Image courtesy of Sherry Bolin [P01-3856].

2229 EXHIBIT

The 2229 exhibit will be on view at the ONM for the entire year of 2024 while we continue to collect photographs and biographies from descendants. Come to the museum to view this vast collection of allottee photographs.

This diverse array of studio shots and every day snapshots of Osage families are largely from the early decades of the 20th century. Assembled together in one space, 2229 illustrates our ties to one another as Osages and serves as a profound reminder that we are bonded by wahoin.

Recognizing these connections is a place to begin to understand who we are as individuals, who we are as a people and where we are going together. In so doing, we pay tribute to and honor those 2,229 Osages who safeguarded our cultural legacy and ensured the well-being of our people. Their foresight and dedication laid the foundation for the thriving Osage Nation today.

Join us in this effort to build the nation’s archive of this powerful, shared Wahzhazhe history.

*An original allottee is a person whose name appears on the final roll of the Osage Tribe of Indians, pursuant to the Osage Allotment Act of 1906.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Questions?

Please contact the Osage Nation Museum at @email or call (918) 287-5214. The Osage Nation Museum is located at 819 Grandview Avenue Pawhuska OK, 74056.