Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Ralph Aspaas collection, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Collection Rights
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Scope and Contents
Photograph depicting a group sitting outdoors on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation in Dulce, New Mexico. Allotting Agent Ralph Aspaas and his schoolteacher wife Allie Ward Aspaas are sitting on the right. Emmet Wirt (trading post operator) is sitting on the far left. This photograph was probably shot by Hans Aspaas circa 1905-1910.
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