Gray Eagle and Pi-Av, Ute
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Gray Eagle and Pi-Av, Ute.
This young Ute warrior first entered John Wesley Powell's Expedition Camp wanting "water ponies" to ferry himself and his bride across the river. Gray Eagle, son of Chief Douglass of the White River Utes, kidnapped his beloved, Pi-Av (Honey Dew of the Mountains), daughter of a Uinta Ute chief, who had been promised to an other warrior. The rejected lover, Ton-E-Emp-Cho, was in pursuit and threatened death to the groom. The survey party, seeing their genuine affection, helped the young couple avoid capture, so they could remain together and be reunited with their people.
Photographed by Edward O. Beaman, Powell Survey, near Green and Uinta Rivers, Utah, August 1, 1871.
Double matted outside dimensions 11" x 14" photograph 8" x 10" - Reproduction. $21.99.
