Outdoor portrait of ball stick player Albert Henry, wearing a cotton print shirt and dark trousers, beaded bandolier sashes, a beaded belt (NMAI 018856.000), a broad-brimmed hat with a ribbon or silver band, multiple necklaces, silver drop earrings (NMAI 019091.000), and silver wrist bands (NMAI 019085.000). He holds ball game sticks, and is posed in front of a fence with woods in the background
Courtesy of National Museum of the American Indian
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Time Period:
1908-1908
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Techniques:
Dimensions:
5 x 7 in.
Cultures:
American Indians, Choctaw, Gulf, Mississippi Choctaw, Native Americans, North America, Southeast
County:
Neshoba County and Scott County
State:
Mississippi
Country:
USA
Collection History:
Mark Raymond Harrington was one of George Heye's earliest fieldworkers and spent the years between 1908 and 1911 visiting dozens of tribal communities in the East and Midwest to collect for Heye; photographs by Harrington from this period accompanied objects he collected.
Source ID:
NMAI_364020
Catalog Number:
N02671
Album Name:
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