Sioux chiefs – Historic 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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A window into the past: Sioux chiefs, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Unlike the group portraits on this board, this picture is identified in its record as a study of Sioux chiefs, and it appeared as plate 79 in the third supplementary volume of Edward S. Curtis's *The North American Indian*. Curtis worked on that multivolume project from 1907 to 1930, photographing Native peoples across the West and recording their dress, ceremonial regalia and daily life. His portraits were often posed and carefully composed, so the clothing and headdresses shown here reflect his choices as much as everyday practice. Viewers today read the image as both a record of Lakota regalia and a product of the early twentieth-century taste for romantic images of Native Americans.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H66971 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Copyright by Edward S. Curtis. Curtis no.1452-05. 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. vol. 3, pl. 79. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1900-1910. Tribal chiefs--United States--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,092 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-162175 |
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