In 2015, my first contribution to the E-Sylum was a question about identifying thephotograph said to depict the numismatist Montroville Dickeson and a NativeAmerican Chief. Back then, I discovered that the Smithsonian and prominentauction galleries identified the subject not as Dickeson but as the Indian interpreter,Perrin Whitman, with Chief Tamason (Timothy) of the Nez Perce. Still, there wassome resistance to identifying the photo as Whitman rather than Dickeson.

A few months ago, Phil Galen, historian for the Village of Gowanda and Town ofPersia in New York (Whitman lived with family in New York as a child), posted animage to Whitman's Find a Grave that shows him at an age much closer to the timeof the photo taken with Chief Tamason. There is another photograph of PerrinWhitman, apparently from the same time period, seated with a Native Chief. In allthese photographs, Whitman appears to be wearing the same suit. In the photowith his brothers, the suit seems to be the same, sans the black tie.

I also found the flipped image posted on Facebook by the North AmericanIndigenous Museum and identified as Whitman and Chief Timothy in 1868.

It is clear to me that the photograph numismatic researchers have identified asMontroville Dickeson is not him, and I hope we can all reach this conclusion sothat it can be corrected going forward.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
QUERY: IS IT REALLY MONTROVILLE DICKESON IN THIS PHOTO?(https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n13a10.html)
MORE ON THE MONTROVILLE DICKESON PHOTO(https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n14a11.html)
THE ORIGINAL MONTROVILLE DICKESON PHOTO(https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n17a23.html)

See also:
Perrin Whitman (non-Native Interpreter), and Ta-moot-sin or Timothy (Nez Perce), in Washinton D.C. - 1868(https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=%22perrin%20whitman%22)