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Horse Capture--Atsina – Historic Reproduction

Horse Capture--Atsina, c1908 November 19. — historic photograph
Horse Capture--Atsina, c1908 November 19.. Historic photograph from the Horses 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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Horse Capture--Atsina comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Edward S. Curtis made this portrait of Horse Capture, an Atsina man, in Montana around 1908, and the title alone signals its place on a board devoted to horses. The braids, feathered ornaments, necklaces, and fringed leather shirt are the kind of regalia Curtis often arranged for his sitters. Horses reached the northern Plains through trade in the 1700s and transformed life there, making hunting, travel, and warfare faster and more far-reaching. Curtis's plate was later published in a supplement to *The North American Indian*, his multivolume survey of Native peoples.

Created / publishedc1908 November 19.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesH118647 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2975-08. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, Suppl., v. 5, pl. 170.
SubjectsHorse Capture, George P.--Family. Indians of North America--Montana--1900-1910. Atsina Indians--Montana--1900-1910. Braids (Hairdressing)--1900-1910. Feathers--1900-1910. Leather garments--Montana--1900-1910. Necklaces--1900-1910. Shirts--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,195 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-155951

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