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.