Portrait of a Navajo Indian captain (or chieftain?), son-in-law of the great Chief Manuelito, wearing a very expensive necklace, Painted Desert, Arizona, ca.1901
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 James, George Wharton
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
Photographic portrait of a Navajo Indian captain (or chieftain?), son-in-law of the great Chief Manuelito, wearing a very expensive necklace, Painted Desert, Arizona, ca.1901. He is visible from the waist up. He is wearing a twisted cloth band around his head and a striped blanket draped across his left shoulder. The individual adobe bricks of a building are distinguishable in the wall behind him. He is looking straight ahead.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 22 x 17 cm., 25 x 20 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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