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LL/27717
Unidentified photographer / artist
n.d.
Indian portrait

Collodion print
5 + x 3 7/8 in
 
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim (Auction: March 13, 2008, 51, part 2 / lot 87)
 
The club carried by the man in feathered headdress is actually a maul used by women for mashing choke cherries or pounding dried meat [thanks Mike Cowdrey.] His beaded strap is Ojibway. Many of these artifacts were widely traded, and so are not original with the tribe.
 
LL/27717


 

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