A point of interest--Navaho – 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.)
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A window into the past: A point of interest--Navaho, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A point of interest--Navaho
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Titled "A point of interest" and dated about 1904, this Navajo group portrait comes from Edward S. Curtis, whose work in the early 1900s documented Native communities across the American West. The photograph was later reproduced as plate 36 in the supplement volume of *The North American Indian*, the multivolume project Curtis published in Seattle between 1907 and 1930. Curtis often arranged his subjects and settings to convey what he regarded as traditional life, a practice historians now read with some caution. Because the record classes it as a group portrait, it is worth paying attention to how the people are positioned relative to one another and to the camera.
| Created / published | c1904. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Group portraits 1900-1910.Portrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | LC no. 3. Copyright by Edward S. Curtis. 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. 1, pl. 36. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--1900-1910. Navajo Indians--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,637 × 3,727 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222213 |
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