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.
Courtesy of Harvey Leake.
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He is wearing a badge and side-arm possible Indian Tribal Police or Indian Police or Interior Police. Looks like he could be guarding a site like Montezuma’s Castle.
I was thinking the same thing that Shawn was thinking, maybe it’s Bitat’a’kin, and he’s a tribal police?