• Description:

    Juan Morgan, a San Carlos Apache man, posing outside a wood and brush structure. He wears a cardigan, pants, and a dancing plume headdress.

  • Culture/People:

    San Carlos Apache

  • Date created:

    February 1919

  • Photographer:

    Edward H. Davis (Edward Harvey Davis/E. H. Davis), Non-Indian, 1862-1951

  • Place:

    San Carlos Apache Reservation; Gila County, Graham County, Pinal County; Arizona; USA (inferred)

  • Format/Object name:

    Silver gelatin print

  • Collection History/Provenance:

    Edward H. Davis owned a ranch outside San Diego, California, and became fascinated with local Indian people. The collection of Native objects he developed attracted the attention of George Heye, who purchased many items from Davis and hired him as a field collector in 1916. Photographs by Davis from southern California and northern Mexico probably accompanied the objects he sold to or collected for MAI.

  • Dimensions:

    3.25 x 5.5 in.

  • Catalog number:

    P00669

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