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Pamunkey Man in Native Dress
Original Author: De Lancey W. Gill
Created: October 1899
Medium: Photograph

Pamunkey Man in Native Dress

The Pamunkey man William Terrill Bradby, in traditional dress and holding a club, sits for a portrait by the photographer De Lancey W. Gill in October 1899. Gill (1859–1940) was a prolific photographer for the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology from 1898 until 1930 and specialized in making images of American Indians.

Description courtesy of the Virginia Indian Archive.

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