Page from Ballou's Pictorial Drawing Room CompanionThis page from Ballou's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion features a large engraving illustration of Kaw (Kansa) Indians at the office of the Commissioner for Indian Affairs. The caption describes a situation in which various candidates for chieftainship had traveled to Washington, D.C., to obtain the Commissioner's endorsement of one of them over the others. The Indians are identified only as "Great Elk", "Little Dog", "Buffalo", and "Fleet Deer"; the Commissioner is not identified by name, and the page is not dated.Webb, Thomas H. (Hopkins)1801-1866CreatorcreThis item was part of Territorial Kansas Online (TKO# 102129). TKO topic guide: Immigration and Early Settlement>American Indiansstill imageku-kansascollection:2798https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-kansascollection/2798u000396electronicimage/tiffreformatted digitalUniversity of KansasUniversity of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research LibraryRH Q1381740000This work is free of known copyright restrictions.ku-kansascollection_2798_MODSMODS record generated from local records created for online exhibit. Processed, with additional values/elements added by Digital Initiatives, KU Libraries.eng2021-10