Three rare early stereoview halves from the U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado River under the direction of J.W. Powell, featuring remarkable portraits of Native American individuals from the Southwest. The first view, labeled No. 64, shows two women of the Nu-a-guntits band of the Paiute people, described as "An-ti-naints and wife," seated in woven basketry hats and fringed garments, surrounded by dense vegetation. The second view, No. 52, portrays a young Moapa man named "Ai-at-tau-a" (translated as "Beautiful Man"), standing barefoot in traditional dress with a head ornament, photographed against a natural desert backdrop. The third, No. 4, captures a powerful action portrait of a Kai-Vav-it warrior identified as "Chu-ai-um-peak shooting," frozen in the moment of aiming his rifle from behind a large rock formation in the rugged canyon landscape of southern Utah or northern Arizona.

These photographs were produced in the early 1870s during Powell's ethnographic expeditions through the American Southwest and remain some of the earliest photographic documents of the Southern Paiute and related tribes. Each view retains its original printed survey label on verso, affixed to yellow or green mounts. A rare and historically significant group that encapsulates the intersection of science, ethnography, and photography in post–Civil War America.