Missionary woman visiting a Walapai Indian family, Hackbury, Arizona, ca.1900

Photograph of a Missionary women visiting a Walapai Indian family, Hackbury, Arizona, ca.1900. She wears a bonnet, round spectacles, leather gloves, a light blouse, jacket and long skirt. In her lap is cradled a baby. An empty papoose board leans against her left knee. The Indian mother sits to the left, wearing a long striped skirt and a patterned blouse under a brightly patterned shawl or blanket pulled tightly about her shoulders. Her hair is cropped in bangs at front, parted down the middle, and hangs to her shoulders. A small Indian boy wearing a loose plaid garment sits barefoot in front of the two women with his left hand raised to his mouth. His hair is cropped short. The group sits on striped blanket on the ground in front of a wood wall.