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Mis Se Pah – Historic Print

Mis Se Pah, c1903. — historic photograph
Mis Se Pah, c1903.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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A window into the past: Mis Se Pah, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Mis Se Pah appears in Edward S. Curtis's portrait series of Mohave people, made around 1903 along the Colorado River, where the Mohave had lived for generations. The sitter wears jewelry, which the catalog lists as a subject in its own right, and such adornment was an important marker of personal and family identity in many Native communities of the period. Curtis made these portraits as part of his larger effort to document Native American peoples, a project that eventually filled the twenty volumes of *The North American Indian*, published between 1907 and 1930. Viewers today often read such images with attention to both their artistic composition and the circumstances under which they were made.

Created / publishedc1903.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesCurtis no. 146. LC no. 43. Copyright by E.S. Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsMis Se Pah. Indians of North America--1900-1910. Mohave Indians--1900-1910. Jewelry--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,271 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-207160

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