White Man in Indian Dress

White Man in Indian Dress
« on: November 30, 2019, 12:34:08 pm »
Completely staged large cabinet photograph of a white man dressed in Indian clothing and full length eagle feather headdress. He is holding a 1876 Winchester rifle.  Back of the image advertises W.L. Sawyer's Indian Art Gallery. In fact, I believe this is Sawyer himself showing off some of his collection of Indian artifacts. His gallery offers a wide range of photographs of prominent Indian Chiefs in their "natural dress and noted warriors in their buckskin and buffalo robes..."

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