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Nunivak Island, Alaska: Baninaguh – Antique Print

Nunivak Island, Alaska: Baninaguh, c1929. — historic photograph
Nunivak Island, Alaska: Baninaguh, c1929.. 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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This historic photograph of Nunivak Island, Alaska: Baninaguh brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Nunivak Island, Alaska: Baninaguh

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The caption names this portrait's subject as Baninaguh, but the record flags that information as unverified, so the name should be treated as provisional. The photograph was taken on Nunivak Island, a Bering Sea island off western Alaska whose Cup'ik residents were known for fine grass basketry and carved wooden masks. Edward S. Curtis made the image around 1929, during the years he was documenting Indigenous peoples across North America for his multivolume *The North American Indian*.

Created / publishedc1929.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by Edward S. Curtis. No copyright renewals. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,194 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-152434

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