Pamunkey People in Regalia

Five Pamunkey men, including American Civil War veteran William Terrill Bradby (fourth from the left) and George Major Cook (sixth from left), who would become chief of the Pamunkey in 1902, two children in traditional regalia, along with a man in a suit, pose for a portrait by the photographer De Lancey W. Gill on the Pamunkey Indian Reservation in King William County on October 23, 1899. Gill was a prolific photographer for the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology from 1898 until 1930 and specialized in Indigenous peoples.

Description courtesy of the Virginia Indian Archive.