[NATIVE AMERICAN]. SAVAGE, Charles R. (1832-1909), photographer. Baptism of 130 Indians of the Shebit Nation at St. George, by the Mormons. Salt Lake City, UT: ca 1870s.

6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. stereoview on cardstock mount (light toning and spotting, with wear to edges and corners). Verso bears applied paper label featuring photographer's information, image title, and series title, "Views of the Great West from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean / Utah Series."

"Shebit Nation" here refers to the Shivwit band of Southern Paiutes. Featured at the center of the image is Daniel McArthur, President of the St. George Stake of the Mormon Church in Utah, standing up to his knees in a pool of water with an unidentified male Paiute subject. Numerous other Paiute subjects watch from the hillside above. Sheriff Augustus P. Hardy stands on a small ledge to the right, with his hand on his lapel. Source: Alfred L. Bush and Lee Clark Mitchell, The Photograph and the American Indian (p. 55).