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Four photographs of Native Americans

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Description: Four portraits by photographer Frederick Monsen of Native American people consisting of a head-and-shoulders portrait of an older man in a striped shirt, captioned "Old Hopi Snake Priest, 100 yrs old, 1902" (40.5 x 34 cm) (photOV 10138); a naked infant standing next to an adobe building, captioned "Hopi Boy, Oraibi" (image 48 x 35.5 cm) (photOV 10139); a young woman crouching in a doorway, captioned "Hopi Maiden, 1902" (image 42 x 31.5 cm) (photOV 10140); and an older man in profile with a headband and a necklace, captioned "Navajo Man, N.E. Arizona" (image 40.5 x 30 cm) (photOV 10141). Captions are written in pencil on item versos.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1902.
Call number: photOV 10138-10141
Creator: Monsen, Frederick (1865-1929)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Sig Hansen, 2001.
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