Nikefer Shoushick with Dan Stauffer in Indian Costumes, c. 1904

Studio portrait of student Nikefer Shoushick with Dan Stauffer, both dressed in elaborate Indian costumes. 

Note: This is a scan of a photograph in the possession of Robert Weigle, Sr. of Carlisle.  The following was written on the back of the photo.

"Dan Stauffer, Fanny Keesecker's brother and Kieffer Shushuck an Indian he knew at the Carlisle Indian School before the school closed about 1914.
                                                                                                   Guy L. Keesecker
P. S. Fanny was my mother.  Fanny Stauffer married Clem Keesecker, Feb. 24, 1897.
                                                                                                    Guy Keesecker
March 9, (?)"

 

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