NISQUALLY-PUYALLUP DEER SKIN TUNIC from JOHN HAITEN ca 1875

John Haiten was an interpreter and signer of the Medicine Creek Treaty with General Issac Stevens, in 1854. The tunic ended up with a Presbyterian minister named Myron Ells. He died in in 1907 and his wife with the help of an Indian family moved to Port Angels and the Indian family was gifted a number Indian items from the Ells collection. The tunic was one of the gifted items. The rest of the story is available upon purchase.