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Emma Kickapoo Williams Ellis (June 1880-1942) was a Native American woman of the Mexican Kickapoo, known as a model for several artists. She took an allotment in Indian Territory, was educated at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and became a baker. In 1912, she was one of three Kickapoo models for , who made a bronze cast of her image for the Smithsonian. The following year, she was the sole tribal member willing to accept a United States Flag from the Wanamaker Expedition. Her image posing with it was chosen for the cover of the 1971 book American Indian Portraits from the Wanamaker Expedition of 1913, which published the photographic collection taken during the expedition. In 1931, she sent a photograph of herself and a quilt she made to Franklin D. Roosev

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  • Emma Kickapoo Williams Ellis (June 1880-1942) was a Native American woman of the Mexican Kickapoo, known as a model for several artists. She took an allotment in Indian Territory, was educated at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and became a baker. In 1912, she was one of three Kickapoo models for , who made a bronze cast of her image for the Smithsonian. The following year, she was the sole tribal member willing to accept a United States Flag from the Wanamaker Expedition. Her image posing with it was chosen for the cover of the 1971 book American Indian Portraits from the Wanamaker Expedition of 1913, which published the photographic collection taken during the expedition. In 1931, she sent a photograph of herself and a quilt she made to Franklin D. Roosevelt, which was featured in volume 15 of the series Handbook of North American Indians published in 1978 by the Smithsonian. (en)
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  • 1932-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • 1912-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • Emma Ellis, Emma Kickapoo Williams, Emma Kickapoo Williams Ellis (en)
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  • Pem-i-tha-ah-kwa, Pem-me-tha-ah-quah, or Pen-e-thah-ah-quah (en)
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  • 1880-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • A stout woman in a dark blouse draped in an American flag. (en)
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  • Pem-i-tha-ah-kwa, Pem-me-tha-ah-quah, or Pen-e-thah-ah-quah (en)
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  • Kickapoo Reservation, Indian Territory (en)
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  • Kickapoo in 1913 (en)
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  • Emma Kickapoo (en)
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  • baker, artists' model, quiltmaker (en)
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  • Emma Ellis, Emma Kickapoo Williams, Emma Kickapoo Williams Ellis (en)
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  • 1912 (xsd:integer)
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  • Emma Kickapoo Williams Ellis (June 1880-1942) was a Native American woman of the Mexican Kickapoo, known as a model for several artists. She took an allotment in Indian Territory, was educated at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and became a baker. In 1912, she was one of three Kickapoo models for , who made a bronze cast of her image for the Smithsonian. The following year, she was the sole tribal member willing to accept a United States Flag from the Wanamaker Expedition. Her image posing with it was chosen for the cover of the 1971 book American Indian Portraits from the Wanamaker Expedition of 1913, which published the photographic collection taken during the expedition. In 1931, she sent a photograph of herself and a quilt she made to Franklin D. Roosev (en)
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  • Emma Kickapoo (en)
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  • Emma Kickapoo (en)
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