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Oyi-tsa – Vintage Print

Oyi-tsa, c1905. — historic photograph
Oyi-tsa, c1905.. 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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Oyi-tsa is identified in the record as a Pueblo chief, and this portrait dates to about 1905. Edward S. Curtis made it for *The North American Indian*, his multivolume effort to document Native American life, and it appeared as plate 601 in a supplementary volume published between 1907 and 1930. Curtis typically posed his sitters in traditional dress against plain backdrops, and his portraits were reproduced as photogravures for subscribers. Today such pictures are read both as records of individuals and as products of a project that shaped how Indigenous people were presented to the public.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1910.Book illustrations 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesH71063 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1803-05.. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, Suppl. v. 17, pl. 601.
SubjectsIndians of North America--1900-1910. Pueblo Indians--1900-1910. Tribal chiefs--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,250 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-191410

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