A Mohave type – 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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This rare historic photograph captures A Mohave type in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A Mohave type
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Titled simply "A Mohave type," this portrait is one of the images Edward S. Curtis made of Mohave people around 1903, while he was assembling the work that became *The North American Indian*. The Mohave lived along the lower Colorado River, in the area that is now Arizona, California and Nevada, and their traditional way of life was under heavy pressure from outside settlement in those years. Curtis usually presented sitters as representative "types" rather than as named individuals, which reflects the ethnographic goals of his project. Today the picture is as much a record of how photographers of that era framed Native people as it is of the people themselves.
| Created / published | c1903. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Curtis no. 149. LC no. 45. Copyright by E.S. Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--1900-1910. Mohave Indians--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,737 × 4,662 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222189 |
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