Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a Navajo Indian boy on horseback, ca.1900. Description reads: "A son of the desert". He is facing left. He has dark shoulder-length hair. He is wearing a shirt and moccasins, but his legs are bare. A striped blanket roll is draped across the horses back. Another horse stands just ahead but beside the horse on which the boy sits. The desert is visible in the background. The image is contained in a small oval. All other parts of the image outside the oval are grayed out.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 17 x 22 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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