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[Native man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] – Antique Photo Print

[Native man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], c1903. — historic photograph
[Native man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], c1903.. Historic photograph from the Native Americans collection.

(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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Catalogued only as a Native man, this head-and-shoulders portrait faces the camera squarely and is listed as item number one in the Library of Congress's Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis made studies like this around 1903 as part of his broader effort to record Native peoples of North America, work that eventually produced the twenty-volume *The North American Indian*, published between 1907 and 1930. Portraits of this kind preserve detail in dress, hair, and expression, though historians also note that Curtis often posed his subjects and shaped his images to fit his own ideas about tradition.

Created / publishedc1903.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesLC no. 1. Copyright by E.S. Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsIndians of North America--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,742 × 4,662 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222184

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