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[Innocence, an Umatilla girl, full-length portrait, standing by tree, facing slightly right] – Vintage Photo Print

[Innocence, an Umatilla girl, full-length portrait, standing by tree, facing slightly right], c1910. — historic photograph
[Innocence, an Umatilla girl, full-length portrait, standing by tree, facing slightly right], c1910.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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Titled "Innocence," this full-length portrait shows a young Umatilla girl standing beside a tree, turned slightly toward the right of the frame. Edward S. Curtis made it around 1910 for *The North American Indian*, his ambitious effort to record Native peoples across the West, and it appears as plate 270 in the supplemental eighth volume. The title points to the picture's allegorical intent rather than a documentary record of a named sitter, a common approach in Curtis's posed portraits. The Umatilla are a Sahaptin-speaking people of northeastern Oregon, and historians now read images like this critically for how they framed Native children for a non-Native audience.

Created / publishedc1910.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreBook illustrations 1910.Portrait photographs 1910.Photographic prints 1910.
NotesJ150210 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 3300-10. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, suppl., v. 8, pl. 270.
SubjectsIndians of North America--Oregon--Children--1910. Umatilla Indians--Children--1910. Girls--Oregon--1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan617 × 829 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-186910

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