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A Navajo Boy
Creator
Carl E. MoonAmerican Photographer · 1878–1948
All works by this person →> I was a little boy living in a little town in southern Ohio when I first thought of going out West to hunt Indians. I loved Indian stories...When I was twenty-three I did just as I said I would do, but instead of hunting Indians with a gun and bowie knife...I was to hunt my Indian with a camera, paint brushes, and a writing pad. It was particularly the stories by James Fenimore Cooper that influ
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- 1907
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 7da34e15-e210-4db4-81b2-e97e1abac0e8
From the Getty Museum record
Head and shoulders portrait of a young man with headband and bead necklace. The model is believed to be Esikio Tobar (1893-1950) of the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas, dressed as a Navajo.
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