Robert Cage photographs of Turkey Tayac and other Piscataway people, 1978

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Robert Cage photographs of Turkey Tayac and other Piscataway people, 1978

1978

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Photographs depicting Piscataway dancers, a burial ground, herb gathering and food preparation, and a meeting at Piscataway Park in Maryland on October 29, 1978. Most of the photographs were made in Maryland in July and October, 1978. Many of the images show Turkey Tayac (Phillip Proctor) shortly before his death.

19 Color prints

National Anthropological Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 11667429

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Piscataway Conoy Tribe

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The Piscataway Conoy Tribe is a Maryland State Recognized Tribe as of 2012. They are "The People Where the Rivers Blend." They are one of three Maryland State Recognized Tribes: Piscataway Indian Nation, Piscataway Conoy Tribe™ and the Accohannock Tribe. Historically, they were a Confederacy of Tribes under the premier authority of the Tayac or Emperor. Their Confederacy extended between the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay to the watershed of the Potomac River in the area now known as Vi...