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STUDIES by W. R. LEIGH Address: 1680 Broadway, New York 19, N. Y. Telephone: Columbus 5-2077

1. White Hopi burro with native saddle. The Hopi Indians use a great many donkeys because they are more docile than horses. They got these animals originally from the Spaniards.

2. Black Hopi burro with native saddle.

3. Gray and white pinto Hopi burro with white man’s saddle.

4. Mouse-gray Hopi burro with white man’s saddle, the animal’s front feet are tied together to keep him still.

5. Mouse-gray Hopi burro with white man’s saddle, facing three-quarter the beholder; hobbled.

6. View of Potomac River early in the morning.

7. Deweybeard - Sioux in war regalia.

8. An old black and white pinto goat of the Navahos, with two appendages on neck.

9. Range cow - South Dakota ranch.

10. Woods on Potomac River.

11. Pinto range horse - Cody, Wyoming.

12. A mouse-gray Navaho pony with white man’s saddle. The Navaho knows little of the proper treatment of horses; this one’s neck shows the effect of continual jerking up on the bridle. These horses (cayuse type) are de-rived from the Arab stock brought from North Africa by the Spaniards.

13. Sunrise at Polacca, Arizona.

14. Navaho horse with white man’s saddle - Kayenta.

15. A white Navaho pony with a native saddle. He is old and has sprung knees; he is tired from excessing riding and will be tired as long as he lives.

16. A brown and white Zuni, New Mexico, pueblo horse with white man’s saddle.

17. Bay and white pinto Navaho horse of cayuse type with white man’s saddle. The lariat is tied on the animal’s left side - only an Indian does that.

18. Fallen timber - Cow Creek, Wyoming

[page 2] 19. A fox-roan Navaho cayuse with white man’s saddle.

20. A roan-white pinto Navaho horse with white man’s saddle and native blanket. A replica of this painting is owned by the Duke of Windsor acquired while he was Prince of Wales.

21. A gray-roan cayuse of Navahos with white man’s saddle, and hobbles tied on in the place where the lasso ought to be.

22. An Arizona cloud effect.

23. An Arizona sunrise done at Polacca.

24. Antelope - Greybull Valley, Wyoming.

25. The Needle, a 600 feet stone shaft in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona. Red sand-stone.

26. A bison bull, done in Bronx Park Zoo.

28. On the roofs in Zuni, four stories high. In the distance, part of the sacred mountain, Taaiyalone (thunder-mountain), New Mexico.

29. In a street in Zuni, New Mexico. In the distance are seen twin mesas called “Quely-Yoleny”.

30. A Navaho summer hogan in the Arizona Reservation.

31. El Capitan at sunrise.

32. Afterglow storm clouds - Polacca, Arizona.

33. Minnie and baby - Zuni, New Mexico.



Studies by W. R. Leigh Address: 1680 Broadway, New York 19, N. Y. Telephone: Columbus 5-2077