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Shinnecock, People of the Stony Shore Photo Project attempts to reinforce our connection to the land and aims to present ourselves in a web-based portraiture platform.
The Shinnecock Portrait Project is made possible with Special thanks to MDOC Storyteller’s Institute hosted at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY, in June 2018.
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Legacy Photos
Continuing Tradition
The Shinnecock Portrait Project follows the footsteps of tribal members who have been the subject of portrait photographs or have been photographers themselves.
These portraits instill a sense of ancestral pride and an example of the urgency and purpose in preserving our image for future generations. Our image, stories, and resilience are part of our legacy and memory.
Additional Resources and Photo Archives
Physical Collection:
Wickham Hunter -Shinnecock Photography Project of the 1970s
Photographs commissioned by Rodman Wanamaker to document the “vanishing” way of life for Native Americans during 1908-1913. The photographs were made by Joseph Kossuth Dixon and largely depict northern Plains tribes, including Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Crow, and Dakota. These large bromide prints form a set of presentation photographs and apparently such sets were placed by Rodman Wanamaker in several museums.
Legacy Post Archive
Chief Silva Arrow, Wetahmoe, Princess Silva Arrow, Michannock, Flaming Arrow, Running Deer, Little Fox
Charles Sumner Bunn ca 1950s – Duck Carving
Late 1970s or early 1980s. Senior Nutritional Group at the Shinnecock Community Center
Laura Avis Williams Horton, 1920s
Chief Thunderbird, Jane Hunter Randall-Paul, White Horse (vsiting Tribe) ca 1948 powwow
Robert Horton, Joshua (?), George (?) on the Shinnecock Reservation 1933
David Waukus Bunn
Charles Bunn. National Sportsman Show at the old Madison Square Garden
Wickham Cuffee
Wendy Gardner 1967
Fourth of July Parade – 1939, from the 1971 Shinnecock Powwow Program
Lace Eleazer and Nettie Cuffee Eleazer at West Woods, 1940s
Shinnecock Grandmother, Granddaughter, And Great Grandsons, June 1940
![The caption reads: "Wickham Cuffee, born in 1826, was the son of Sarah Bunn and Vincent Cuffee. He came from the purest stock of the Shinnecock Indians. Older brothers and sisters were James, Nathan, Maria, Nancy, Emaline, Caroline, Louisa, and Frances.
He was well versed in the customs of his people and his memories of early life among the Shinnecock life were of much value to ethnologists and historians. His home was always being visited by people who wanted to photograph him. His family was always very proud of the fact that he was said to resemble George Washington by many. He was a whaler and also remembered when the Shinnecocks used to live in wigwams. According to Wickham, the Shinnecocks stopped living in wigwams after the year 1856.
He was hired by many museums to make models of the Shinnecock wigwam and he was also experienced as a Scrub maker.
His scrubs as well as wigwam models are now collector's items. He was also the last of the Shinnecock Indians who spoke the tribal language. Wickham Cuffee died in the year of 1915 and was much missed by his people. He is still a favorite topic of conversation among the Shinnecocks and many of the Southampton residents."
Photo from Patchogue-Medford Library Digital PML Rare Eastern Indian Photo Series, [Set 1]
colorized
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