This is an original Charles Carpenter (1869-1949) photograph of a Southern Plains or Plains Chief circa 1900-1919 titled in the image Determination and signed Carpenter. Charles Carpenter (1869-1949) was an American who served as the first photographer of the Field Museum of Chicago from 1899 to 1947. He took over 900 photos of the Hopi in 1900 as part of George A. Dorsey’s Stanley McCormick Hopi Expedition to Arizona and produced 2000 images at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. This large image is hand tinted, either a collotype or silver gelatin, is in the original antique frame and matting produced by Carpenter himself. The Chief is shown with a beaded feathered headdress war bonnet with wearing blanket over his shoulders, beaded breast plate necklace. A rare image shown with color tinting. The back is marked in fountain pen January 1919. Frame measures 12.5-inches by 10.5-inches. Visible art area is 9.25-inches by 7.25-inches.