Title: | Bi-Joshii, Navajo, portrait photo: An Old Warrior | |
Date/circa: | 1920? - 1925? | |
Photographer: | Pennington Studio (Durango, Colo.) | |
Subjects: | Bi-Joshii--Portraits; ; ; Navajo Indians--Portraits; | |
Summary note: | Medicine man Bi-Joshii is shown in this Navajo Series photo. A Chief's-style Navajo blanket is draped over his shoulders and he holds an arrow in his right hand and two arrows and a bow in his left hand. He is wearing an earring and a beaded necklace. | |
Other notes: | A survivor of the Navajo Long Walk in 1864-68, he was a strong-minded leader of the Navajo people and their lands. The following phrase must be used whenever and wherever this photograph is displayed or exhibited: From the Tom O. and H. Lucille Kimball Indian Collection. | |
Photoprint#: | P051005 |
Original photos from the Tom O. and H. Lucille Kimball Indian Collection.
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