Colville Indian woman and child – Historic Print
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(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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Colville Indian woman and child comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Colville Indian woman and child
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Taken around 1861 and pasted into an album of the British Northwest Boundary Commission, this albumen print shows a Colville woman holding a child, a picture made during the survey work that followed the 1846 treaty setting the boundary between British territory and the United States. The Colville people lived in the Columbia Plateau region of what is now eastern Washington, and images like this one, produced by travelers and surveyors, often recorded clothing and family life in ways that were rarely documented from the sitter's own perspective. The record gives few details about the photographer or the sitters, so the print is best read as a document of a meeting between surveyors and a Native community at a time of rapid change.
| Created / published | [1861] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1860-1870.Group portraits 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Title from item. In album: [British Northwest Boundary Commission and Related Subjects, 1859-1861, leaf 53]. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1999:001.01 |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1860-1870. Indians of North America--Women--1860-1870. Colville Indians--Clothing & dress--1860-1870. Colville Indians--Women--1860-1870. Mothers & children--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,027 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-224655 |
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