 The pictures with descriptions taken by her became part of the project sponsored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the University of Chicago Committee on Human Development Indian Education and Research.The project resulted in a book titled "The Desert People" authored by Spicer, Alice Joseph, and Jane Chesky in which the most illustrations provided are the pictures taken by Spicer.She revisited this reservation during the 1950s and 1960 to take pictures of photos of the Tohono O'odham.