Photo courtesy of the Wanamaker Collection, Mathers Museum of World Cultures) An exhibit of turn of the century photographs of Native American will be on display at the Whitley County Historical Museum from August 1-27. The photographs in black and white, such as the one above, document the lives of American Indians during a great period of change. Below, is Jack Red Cloud, an Ogala Lakota. Portraits such as this are also an important part of the Wanamaker Collection, a part of Indiana University\'s Mathers Museum of World Cultures.

By Dani Tippmann

for talkofthetownwc.com

Images from one of the largest and most important collections of photographs of Native Americans will be featured in the exhibit Images of Native Americans: The Wanamaker Collection at Indiana University, on exhibit at the Whitley County History Museum from August 1 to August 27, 2008.

This exhibit, organized by the Mathers Museum of World Cultures at Indiana University Bloomington, is sponsored by the Moveable Feast of the Arts Program at IUB. Created through a generous gift from the Lilly Endowment Inc., the Moveable Feast of the Arts Program was initiated by the IU Office of the President in 2004 with administrative and financial oversight provided by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research. For more of this story, go to our Whitley News Network partner, talkofthetownwc.com …