Number 27: Dan Battise, Ben Bearskin, Harry Funmaker, Amos Decora and Ken Funmaker on the edges of a LaSalle Street AIC event
Scope and Contents note
Dan Battise (Alabama-Coushatta) was born in 1917 in the "piney-woods" country between Indian Village and Livingston, Texas. As a child he became interested in photography when he saw a man with a box camera. He cut grass for people to earn enough to purchase his first Kodak camera, and he kept up his photography hobby ever since that time. He came to Chicago in 1949, and frequently travelled to pow wows and other Indian events taking photographs. Battise was involved with the American Indian Center when it was first started and was an active volunteer. He also received an award from the Indian Council Fire. A member of the first Chicago American Indian Camera Club, he took many photographs of Native American community clubs, and organizational photos for many years.
Creator
- From the Collection: D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
The Seeing Indian in Chicago Exhibition records are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Repository Details
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Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
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