Nespilim woman – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Nespilim woman. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Nespilim woman
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Identified in its record as a Nespilim woman, this portrait dates to about 1905 and comes from Edward S. Curtis's work for *The North American Indian*. The Nespelem, whose name is also spelled Nespilim, are a Salishan-speaking people of the Columbia Plateau in north-central Washington, and their name later came to be used for a town on the Colville Reservation. The image appeared as plate 245 in the supplement to volume 7, published in Seattle between 1907 and 1930. Curtis's portraits of this period were carefully composed and often posed, so they reflect his choices as much as his subjects' everyday lives.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Curtis no. 273-05. LC no. 65. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, Suppl. v. 7, pl. 245. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Women--1900-1910. Nespelim Indians--Women--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,742 × 4,667 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222217 |
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