86:15900-1268

(Documentary Artifact): One b/w negative of William Coleman sitting on a rocky cliff edge with back to camera. He looks toward the cliff of the ‘Eagle Man.’

Notes on negative envelope:
86:15900-1268/ Davis Coll./ dup. Neg./ Capitan Grande Reservation/ Wm. Coleman of Campo on edge/ of cliff looking over canyon/ toward cliff of the Eagle Man./ Oct. 1931

According to additional information provided on 10/2011 by a member of the E.H. Davis Project Scholar Advisory Committee: The eagle story tells of a man who was pushed into an eagle’s nest and couldn’t get out. As he grew thinner from hunger, he grabbed onto an eagle and was able to escape.