African American Man 1/4 Ambrotype Black 1800s Unusual Photo Creepy Antique leather or maybe some sort of

or maybe some sort of club and wearing a sash and a headdress with singlefeather

and a previous owner wrote a small inventory number on the spine

looking a bit intimidated by the camera

or at most one or two

but this is the original photograph

African American Man 1/4 Ambrotype Black 1800s Unusual Photo Creepy Antique leather or maybe some sort of1 4 plate, 1850s ambrotype of a menacing looking man.. wearing dark makeup? And smoking a tinted pipe. Ambrotype is behind mat and cover glass. It's in good antique condition with some crazing craquelure in emulsion. The case cover are separated and the right rail on the image side is completely detached from the case. It looks partially attached in my scan, but it fell off.