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Navajo, portrait photo: The Watchman
Date/circa:  1920? - 1925?
Photographer: Pennington Studio (Durango, Colo.)
Subjects: Navajo Indians--Portraits;
Summary note: In this “Navajo Series” photo, the watchman stands on a rock high on the mesa looking out for approaching enemies. He is holding his right hand over his eyes to shade them. He is also wearing a blanket, head bandanna, earring, and ankle high moccasins.
Other notes: 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#: P051012

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