The man is using a pump type drill. The item is number 440 in the series Views Along the Colorado Midland. Rudy apparently pirated the image from John K. Hillers.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09906500
Other Title:
Pictures of Indian villages, chiefs, squaws, & (rest cut off)
Views Along the Colorado Midland
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution