Luke Yazzie

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1952
Size: 8x10"

Luke Yazzie is photographed in profile at Pine Springs, a small community southwest of the Navajo Nation capital of Window Rock, in 1952. “Good manners and simple courtesy are very much a part of Navaho life,” Gilpin wrote, “and there is always a right way and a wrong way to do everything. This is why Navaho People deliberate before every act, before every spoken word.”