Getting water--Apache – Historic Reproduction
(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: Getting water--Apache, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Getting water--Apache
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Among Edward S. Curtis's many studies of Native life, this one focuses on the ordinary labor of getting water. Curtis made the picture around 1903 and later published it as plate 10 in a supplementary volume of *The North American Indian*, his multivolume survey of Native peoples of the American West and beyond. Like much of his work, it reflects his effort to record traditional ways of life, though many of his scenes were arranged for the camera rather than caught as they happened. Water gathering was a constant, physical part of daily life for Apache households, and the picture treats that routine as a subject worth documenting in its own right.
| Created / published | c1903. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H33858 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 132. LC no. 68. Copyright by E.S. Curtis. 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. 1, pl. 10. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Subsistence activities--1900-1910. Apache Indians--Subsistence activities--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,737 × 4,667 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222197 |
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