A Descendant of Esther LaBarre Speaks on Her 1920 Film Recovered From a Dallas Fire
Beaded medicine bags, leather moccasins and colorful, breastplate chokers spill from Autumn Moss’ brown, zippered suitcase. The Native American bead artist is a descendant of Esther LaBarre, who starred in the once-feared-lost silent film Daughter of Dawn. The handiwork, Moss says, is that of her grandfather, Billy LaBarre, a full…