Taken by photographer George W. Bretz, the photo features a Native American lady named O-o-dee of the Kiowa people. She is captured standing by a draped pedestal and wearing a fringed buckskin dress with an elk-tooth decoration. Indeed, the photo is an ode to O-o-dee’s indigenous roots and the remarkable craftsmanship of the Kiowa tribe. But there’s one more thing that people found strikingly captivating about her portrait—the way she charmingly smiled at the camera.
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Remastered and colored after the original at the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, by M.T.
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