(AMERICAN INDIANS PHOTOGRAPHS) [Wittick Ben; photographer]

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(AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) [Wittick, Ben; photographer.] Promenade card of Peaches, the Apache scout under General Crook. Albumen photograph, 7 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches, on original mount, with long manuscript caption on verso; no significant condition issues. Np, circa 1885

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"Peaches" was a Cibicue Apache, given name Tzoe or Pa-nayo-tishn, seen here standing with his rifle between two unidentified men. He led General Crook into the Sierra Madre to capture Geronimo and the Chiricahuas in 1883. He was remembered fondly in Bourke's "An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre": "Prominent among these scouts was of course first of all Peaches, the captive guide. He was one of the handsomest men, physically, to be found in the world. He never knew what it was to be tired, cross, or out of humor. His knowledge of the topography of Northern Sonora was remarkable, and his absolute veracity and fidelity in all his dealings a notable feature in his character."
The photographer was likely Ben Wittick, who is credited with the better-known solo portrait of Peaches from the same sitting (see Broder, Shadows on Glass 5). Wittick may have been the author of the caption on verso, which reads in part "He is one of the most striking looking Indians I have ever seen."