Coming for the bride--Qagyuhl – 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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Step back in time with Coming for the bride--Qagyuhl, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Coming for the bride--Qagyuhl
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Edward Curtis staged this scene for his ethnographic project, which set out to record Indigenous life in North America before what he believed would be its disappearance. The title, "Coming for the bride," points to a Kwakwaka'wakw wedding custom in which the groom's party travels by canoe to collect the bride, and the rowers here are shown in full stroke on the water. Curtis's photographs of this kind were posed and arranged, so they capture a ceremony as he chose to present it rather than a spontaneous event. The image appeared as plate 337 in the supplementary volume of The North American Indian, published in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | c1914 November 13. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | J197407 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from: The North American Indian. Curtis no. 3478. 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. 10, pl. 337. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--British Columbia--Social life--1910-1920. Kwakiutl Indians--1910-1920. Canoes--British Columbia--1910-1920. Marriage--British Columbia--1910-1920. Rowing--British Columbia--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,105 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-128910 |
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