Object Details
- Artist
- Edward S. Curtis, born Whitewater, WI 1868-died Los Angeles, CA 1952
- Publisher
- Edward S. Curtis, born Whitewater, WI 1868-died Los Angeles, CA 1952
- Printer
- Suffolk Engraving Co.
- Exhibition Label
- Between 1900 and 1930, Edward S. Curtis traveled across the continent photographing more than seventy Native American tribes. The photographs presented daily activities, customs, and religions of a people he called “a vanishing race.” To this end, Curtis often costumed his subjects and set up scenes, mixing tribal artifacts and traditions to match his romanticized vision of the people he studied.
- A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2013
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the United States Marshal Service of the U.S. Department of Justice
- 1905
- Object number
- 1988.5.18
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Photography-Photomechanical Reproduction
- Medium
- photogravure
- Dimensions
- sight 16 5/8 x 12 1/4 in. (12.3 x 31.1 cm.)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Graphic Arts
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Indian
- Figure female\bust
- Landscape\New Mexico\San Ildefonso
- Object\art object\pottery
- Record ID
- saam_1988.5.18
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk74a00038f-4c63-4d70-b62f-7b50ea48fe9a
