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Claude C. Matlack Photographs
Annie Jumper Tommie using mortar and pestel to make cornmeal, and her son, Tony Tommie, wearing a Plains Indian eagle feather bonnet, 1927 February 5.
The Miami Chamber of Commerce staged a publicity event, Forward to the Soil, to promote sales of reclaimed land, and which took place on the Roselawn Tract, near Hialeah. Without tribal consent, Musa Isle headman Tony Tommie participated in the ceremony, made peace and handed over the Everglades to whites. The rest of the tribe and the U.S. government did not recognize his actions. This photograph was shot at that event.
Credit: Claude Matlack Collection, Historical Museum of Southern Florida.
Image number: Matlack 111-30
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