Super Crisp Hand-tinted 19th C. Tintype Portrait of Handsome and Moody Young Man girl with mother expressing the sense of forced

expressing the sense of forced constriction facing Indigenous Americans just a few years before the signing of the Dawes Act in 1887

leave them screwed

at which point we couldn't reach for the nutcrackers fast enough

made of a solid wooden block clad in perfect old white paint with graphite drawn windows

I think it is fantastic--reminding me of a pre-historic sort of a bird

Super Crisp Hand-tinted 19th C. Tintype Portrait of Handsome and Moody Young Man girl with mother expressing the sense of forcedLots of tintype portraits out there, but this one really struck me in part for the quality and clarity of the tintype itself, extremely sharp and crisp, and with the solid cream ground making the image feel to my eye quite contemporary in sensibility. Then there is handsome and also vulnerable looking him, with hand tinted cheeks, a subtle shadow of stubble, and every strand of carefully combed hair crystal clear and accounted for, looking to me