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Native American portrait


Kenneth DeCrosta ·

“Half-Breed Navajo Chief,” by William Pennington, is a portrait photograph from around 1900. Isobella Dale, student curator, writes of the image: “These stereotypical images of Native Americans as stoic and sad reflect the popular belief in a ‘disappearing’ nation that was unable to respond and engage with the societies built by Western settlers.”