[Winnowing wheat--San Juan] – Antique Wall Art
![[Winnowing wheat--San Juan], c1905. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4f/4fe59712797b-L.webp)
(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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This rare historic photograph captures [Winnowing wheat--San Juan] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Winnowing wheat--San Juan]
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Curtis caught this moment of grain-cleaning among the Tewa of San Juan Pueblo in New Mexico, where a woman tosses wheat into the air so that the wind carries away chaff and lighter debris while the heavier kernels fall back into her basket or tray. Winnowing was ordinary daily work in Pueblo households, and Curtis, who photographed Native communities across the West for his multivolume study The North American Indian, often framed such tasks to show domestic life. The picture was published in volume 17 of that work, issued between 1907 and 1930, and it remains a useful record of household labor and material culture in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H71036 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1773-05. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30 suppl., v. 17, p. 14. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--New Mexico--Domestic life--1900-1910. Tewa Indians--Domestic life--1900-1910. Indians of North America--Women--1900-1910. Tewa women--1900-1910. Winnowing--New Mexico--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,290 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-182950 |
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