This photo was taken to represent the Modoc war and the intelligence of the Modoc Braves which was greatly underestimated. The Modoc War was also known as the Modoc Campaign. The US Army needed a photographer to capture images of the war between the two forces. They hired the photographer famous at the time for capturing movement on film, Eadweard Muybridge, and titled the photograph of this particular photo “A Modoc Brave on the War Path.” Additionally, the US Army couldn't get an action shot of a Modoc warrior without endangering the photographer's life, so they assumed the Native American in the image means he's not a Modoc warrior. Muybridge was the primary photographer of the early part of the war in the early 1870s and the location of the war was in the northeastern part of California. The photo “A Modoc Brave on the War Path” highlights the hatred of the US military for the Modocs because they are willing to live in miserable conditions just to inflict pain on Americans. What's interesting about the image is that the Native American posing as a Modoc warrior is wearing the correct native garb and surroundings to make the photo as authentic as possible, but he is using an American weapon that makes it look like the photography a staging. I also think it's interesting that it looks like Muybridge just walked into this scene, but this man is in such a stereotypical pose. The Modoc soldier in the photo uses a stick perhaps to balance his weapon against the hard stones he uses as cover against American forces. As you can see the physique of the Modoc soldiers and how fit they are thanks to their reliance solely on manual labor to support their livelihood, whether it be hunting or building... middle of paper... .or gambling if all a horse's hooves were in the air as they ran. This was impossible to see with the human eye alone. Then, Muybridge was asked to help by Stanford and he accepted. Muybridge was never able to perfect the motion photography method at the time because he had nothing to work with, using 12 cameras to take photographs of the horse running in a sequence of shots he was able to assume that Stanford's prediction was correct. correct that all hooves lifted off the ground and were in the air at the same time during the gallop. Muybridge went on to have a notable academic career that included teaching at the University of Pennsylvania from 1883 to 1886, publishing several books explaining the processes for capturing moving photographs, then shared the process of a projection device he invented called Zoopraxiscope..