Today’s post is a photograph by famed photographer Edward S. Curtis, or a head-and-shoulders portrait of a Navajo man, wearing a necklace and a headband.
It’s inexplicably titled “The laughing singer.”
He looks pretty serious to me… I’ve been wondering why it would be called that. Any ideas?
The laughing singer, Published January 6, 1905
old spirituals 
He does look pretty serious. Maybe he’s usually a laughing singer, but declined to smile for the picture? Still, it seems sort of odd that he’d still title it “The Laughing Singer” when he’s obviously not laughing
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Right? That’s what I thought too!
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