Heavy Shield – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Heavy Shield, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Heavy Shield, the name recorded for this sitter, is one of the numbered studies Edward S. Curtis made around 1900 as part of his effort to document Native peoples of North America. Curtis photographed many subjects in traditional dress and posed settings, and portraits like this one later appeared in his multi-volume series *The North American Indian*, published from 1907 to 1930. Today viewers often read these images both as records of individuals and as products of Curtis's staging and his romantic view of a vanishing way of life.
| Created / published | c1900. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900.Photographic prints 1900. |
| Notes | Curtis no. 59. LC no. 24. Copyright by Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Heavy Shield. Indians of North America--1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,727 × 4,687 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222207 |
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