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Navajo, portrait photo: Directing the Messenger
Date/circa:  1920? - 1925?
Photographer: Pennington Studio (Durango, Colo.)
Subjects: Navajo Indians--Portraits;
Summary note: “Navajo Series” photo of two Navajo men. They are both wearing bandannas and Navajo blankets around their bodies. The one on horseback is also wearing an earring and ankle high moccasins. The other man is standing and pointing toward the horizon.
Other notes: The Navajo blankets being used are Teec Nos Pos designs from the stock at Will Evans' Shiprock Trading Post. 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#: P051011

Original photos from the Tom O. and H. Lucille Kimball Indian Collection. 
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