The photograph in this poster was taken by Edward Cutis in 1900; known as “Zuni Governor,” it was one of his earliest and most widely circulated portraits. It captures Sa We Ta Fina, a leader at Zuni Pueblo in western New Mexico, who was selected for his strong features and, as Curtis noted, his “unusually focused and intent gaze.” The dramatic lighting and elegant composition here exemplify Curtis’s romantic primitivism, freezing the Zuni leader in a state of ethnographic timelessness. The designer for Akwesasne Notes combined the portrait with a Zuni rain invocation, reconfiguring this anthropological document as a prayer vessel. The gold text emanates from the fabric of the sitter’s richly textured garment, turning his portrait into a site of ongoing ceremony. This poster was created around 1975 during severe droughts that affected many Indigenous lands and suggests resistance through spiritual practice as a companion to much of the more direct protest promoted in other posters within the series.