If you look at the lower right corner, you see Julia Tuell’s own handwritten description of the photograph. This is a copy of one of her many scrapbooks full of photos. Julia’s photos were taken well before the invention of color photography so she would painstakingly hand paint the black and white photographs to represent what it would look like in color. You can see the beautiful high cheekbones of both Indian ladies. The original negatives are in her collection. Julia E. Tuell, young teenage wife of a school teacher, mother to four children, missionary and nurse, extensively photographed sacred ceremonies normally off limits to white people and the raw events of daily life. Julia packed her eight-by-ten-inch glass-plate Eastman Kodak camera and tripod with her nearly everywhere she went, often with children in tow.
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