Chipeta
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Chipeta or White Singing Bird was a Native American leader, and the second wife of Chief Ouray of the Uncompahgre Ute tribe. Born a Kiowa Apache, she was raised by the Utes in what is now Conejos, Colorado. An advisor and confidant of her husband, Chipeta continued as a leader of her people after his death in 1880.
Chipeta and her husband Chief Ouray, wearing a shirt she beaded
Ute delegation in Washington, D.C. in 1880. Chipeta is seated in the front row beside her husband.
Uncompahgre Ute
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The Uncompahgre Ute or ꞌAkaꞌ-páa-gharʉrʉ Núuchi is a band of the Ute, a Native American tribe located in the US states of Colorado and Utah. In the Ute language, uncompahgre means "rocks that make water red." The band was formerly called the Tabeguache.
Charles Craig, Uncompahgre Ute Indian Camp, 1893, Denver Art Museum
Chief Ouray
An Uncompahgre Ute Buffalo rawhide ceremonial rattle filled with quartz crystals. Flashes of light are visible when the quartz crystals are subjected to mechanical stress in darkness.