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Title: Native American Aims a Rifle from Behind a Rock Wall
Creator: Muybridge, Eadweard
Date Created and/or Issued: 1966/08/14
Contributing Institution: Center for Sacramento History
Collection: Center for Sacramento History Photo Collection
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Description: This is a photo of an earlier, undated photo of a Native American man aiming a rifle from his crouched position behind a rock wall taken by Eadweard Muybridge. The caption printed in the Sacramento Bee on August 14, 1966 states: "This scout employed by the U.S. Army wears typical Indian dress at the time of the Modoc War. The leather pouch at his side held metal tubes containing seven cartridges for the Spencer rifle."
Type: image
Identifier: 8F6EFA09-D117-4029-8E94-634063116430
1983/001/SBPM07358
Subject: American Indian Movement (AIM)
Modoc War
Native Americans

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