An Indian with his thick, long braids wrapped in otter fur stands beside an oil portrait of a woman and a baby.
Who was this man? What had happened to the people in the painting who were obviously important enough to the man that he wanted to be captured with them for time immemorial?
The size of a picture postcard, the photo of this Indian is an albumen print, which first came into being in 1850 an
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