CARL MOON (1878-1948) CIRCA 1900 PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OF

With gold tone on cover, the last image hand colored, all originals taken and printed by Moon, this album is referenced in Driebe's book on pg.194. An imposing hardcover album from Moon's Pasadena, California Studio to display his photos. Inset onto the front inside cover is a gold tone of Moon's most famous image, his remarkably sensitive bust portrait of a "Navajo Boy", which has sold for over $15,000 by itself. Waist length photo of "Pedro Cayeete" on front cover. The album contains forty selected images printed in matte finish, ranging in size from 6 1/2" x 5 1/2" to 7 1/2" x 9 1/2", each image matted on a heavy album page, set off by a gold liner. The album is 10 1/2" x 13 1/2" x 2 1/2". Very good condition.

Photos mounted in pages, on both sides of each, are titled by typed slips of paper, front to back: “Reflections”; “Storyteller” (Taos); “Gray Hawk” (Taos); “Voice of the Stream”; “Wild Flowers”; “Their First Born” (Taos); “Hostin Nez”; “Bear Legs” (Osage); “Navajo Mother and Child”; “Homeward Bound” (Hopi Second Mesa); “Hopi Mirror”; “Warrior”; “Jim Little Feather”; “The Wolf” (Cho Bah Begey...Navajo); “Warrior’s Bride” (Albida); “Mending Arrows”; “Taos Arrowmaker”; “Dancing Lesson”; “Taos Medicine Man”; “Medicine Drum”; “Hopi Weaver” (Village...Tewa); “Navajo Weaver”; “Scout”; “Return of the Harvesters” (Walpi); “Standing Elk” (Taos...War Captain); “Lone Singer”; “Flute Player”; “Mo Hi Qui Ilo” (Hopi); “Aleda”; “Zuni Baking Ovens”; “Zuni Building”; “Ko Mah Qua Ee” (Hopi); “Hopi Sisters” (Arabi); “Ancient Hopi House”; “First Mesa” (Walpi); “Grinding Corn” (Olha Chi De); “Nampeyo” (Hopi Pottery Maker); “Corn Song”; “Love Song” (Taos); “Azi” (Osage); “Little Daughter of the Desert” (This last is hand colored and mounted inside the back cover).Ref: "In Search of the Wild Indian: Photographs and Life Works by Carl and Grace Moon" by Tom Driebe, Maurose Publishing Co., Moscow, Pa. 1997. p. 194.