FINE IMAGE OF “LIGHT BEARD” WITH BOW & ARROW, CIRCA 1874

FINE IMAGE OF “LIGHT BEARD” WITH BOW & ARROW, CIRCA 1874

02-21988

7.5″ x 5″ unmarked albumen mounted on larger board, Indian posed with arrow and bow, wearing quiver and arrows stacked on rock. In the Smithsonian collection (National Museum of The American Indian) is same image “Light Beard” or “Barbas Huero”, probably a member of the 1874 Dine delegation to Washington, Photo by Charles Milton Bell.

PROVENANCE: from Martin Lane Historic & Western Americana Lifetime Collection.