Studio portrait of Captain john Orrin Spicer wearing Arctic Indigenous clothing

cabinet photograph

PHOTOGRAPHS
Kenyon & Son
USA, CT, New London
6-1/2 x 4-1/4 in.

Cabinet photograph, albumen print mounted on brown card with gold beveled edges; studio portrait of Captain John Orrin Spicer (1835-1917) in Arctic Indigenous clothing, holding harpoon in left hand; printed on card at bottom "Kenyon & Son,/ New London,/ Ct."; handwritten on bck in pen "Capt. John Spicer/ in Eskimo/ Costume"; lower right corner broken off.


1955.954

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