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Title : Yaha-Hajo, a Seminole chief.
Series : Reference collection
Photographer : Ted Saylor Photography.
Image Number : Rc0-476
Date : 1842.
Original : 1 transparency : col. ; 10 x 7 in.
Notes :

The name means, "Mad Wolf." Yaha-Hajo was the second principal war chief of the Seminole nation and had been among the seven chiefs selected to inspect the western lands reserved for the Seminoles. For a time he wavered between the pro-American faction and Micanopy, who fought against selling any land to the United States. He finally joined Micanopy and was killed by a Dragoon patrol on the banks of the Oklawaha River.

Published by Daniel Rice & James G. Clark, Philadelphia. Drawn, printed & coloured at J.T. Bowen's lithographic establishment. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1842 by J.T. Bowen in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Transparency by Ted Saylor Photography.