The three chiefs--Piegan – Vintage Print
(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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The three chiefs--Piegan
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Three men in traditional dress and regalia give this picture its title, "The Three Chiefs," and place it among the Piegan (Pikuni), a Blackfeet-speaking people of what is now northern Montana. Edward S. Curtis made it around 1900 as part of his ambitious effort to record Native American life before he believed it would vanish. It was later printed as plate 209 in *The North American Indian*, the multivolume work he published between 1907 and 1930. Curtis often arranged his subjects and costumes for the camera, so the image reflects both the sitters and his own vision of an idealized past.
| Created / published | c1900. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900. |
| Notes | Curtis no. 52. LC no. 23. Copyright by 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. 6, pl. 209. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--1900. Piegan Indians--1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,632 × 3,732 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222208 |
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