Navaho girl – Historic 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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Navaho girl
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Shot around 1904, this portrait shows a young Navajo girl in the Southwest, one of the many children Edward S. Curtis photographed during his fieldwork. Curtis was then at the start of his ambitious multivolume project, *The North American Indian*, which aimed to record Native peoples through portraits, ceremonies, and daily life. His studio-like images often posed subjects against plain backgrounds, and they are now read both as artistic work and as a record shaped by the photographer's own choices. Looking closely at this print, viewers can consider how Curtis framed childhood and cultural identity at a time of rapid change in the region.
| Created / published | c1904. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | LC no. 11. Copyright by Edward S. Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Children--Southwest, New--1900-1910. Navajo Indians--Children--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,747 × 4,677 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222155 |
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