Pipe bags – Vintage Wall Art
(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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Pipe bags in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Pipe bags, which the back of this print labels as tobacco pouches, held tobacco and the smoking pipe, and Dakota makers often decorated them with beadwork, quillwork, or painted designs that carried meaning for their owners. Edward S. Curtis photographed them around 1908 for *The North American Indian*, his multi-volume project documenting Native peoples of North America, which ran from 1907 to 1930. This view appeared in volume 3. Curtis believed many of these traditions were disappearing, so records of objects like these were central to his effort to preserve them.
| Created / published | c1908. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H112951 U.S. Copyright Office. Title on verso: Tobacco pouches. Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Curtis no. 2498-08. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, v. 3, p. 26. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1900-1910. Dakota Indians--Arts & crafts--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,298 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-194768 |
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