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The back of this photo says, “Navajo.”
Historian, Harvey Leake, adds that this photo was taken in the “Cove area in the very northeast corner of Arizona (not too far from Shiprock).
Photographer and date not known.
From the archive of the Wetherill Family, well-known traders in the Kayenta, AZ area who helped facilitate the Expedition.
Photo courtesy of Harvey Leake.