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Mnainak, a Yakima chief – Vintage Wall Art

Mnainak, a Yakima chief, 1910, c1910. — historic photograph
Mnainak, a Yakima chief, 1910, c1910.. 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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Mnainak, a Yakima chief

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Mnainak was a Yakama chief whose portrait Edward S. Curtis made around 1910 for The North American Indian, the multi-volume project Curtis published in Seattle between 1907 and 1930. The picture appeared in volume 7, and the record notes that it shows the sitter in Yakama arts-and-crafts dress, a detail Curtis considered important for documenting traditional clothing. Curtis worked across the Plains and Pacific Northwest, often posing his subjects in costume and staging them against plain backdrops, so this print reflects both his method and the wider early twentieth-century effort to record Native life before many traditions had changed.

Created / published1910, c1910.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1910.Photographic prints 1910.
NotesJ139704 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 3050-10. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, v. 7, p. 14.
SubjectsIndians of North America--Washington (State)--Arts & crafts--1910. Indians of North America--Washington (State)--Clothing & dress--1910. Yakama Indians--Arts & crafts--1910. Yakama Indians--Clothing & dress--1910. Tribal chiefs--United States--1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,065 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-170636

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