Poolaw would spend the next 50 years of his life documenting the daily lives of family, friends and fellow Kiowa at work and play, as they made the transition, says his daughter, “from tipi to ...

For fifty years, Horace Poolaw, Kiowa, chronicled the daily lives of friends, family and neighbors in southwestern Oklahoma. A retrospective of his work, "For a Love of His People: The Photography ...

‘Kiowa George’ Poolaw. The man they called ‘Kiowa George’ Poolaw was part of the first ‘all Indian’ cavalry troop in the late 1800s. His sons served the U.S. Military as well.

Horace Poolaw never aspired to have his photographs in museums, or to even be printed large enough to frame. A member of the Kiowa tribe, Poolaw had just one show in his lifetime, at the Southern ...

For more than fifty years, Horace Monroe Poolaw, a Kiowa American Indian, dedicated himself to documenting the lives of members of his tribe in southern Oklahoma. To commemorate today’s Native ...

Hoorace Poolaw, “Juanita Daugomah Ahtone (Kiowa), Evalou Ware Russell (center), Kiowa Tribal Princess, and Augustine Campbell Barsh (Kiowa) in the American Indian Exposition parade,” Anadarko ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog.Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. Horace Poolaw, of the Kiowa ...

The work of Oklahoma Kiowa photographer Horace Poolaw (1906-1984), which spanned a period from the 1920s to the 1970s, is a study in contrasts. It presents startling cultural juxtapositions that ...

Horace Poolaw, an American Indian photographer, captured the 20th-century transformations of his own Kiowa people and other tribes Skip to Main Content Explore Our Brands ...