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Ow High – Historic Print

Ow High, c1905. — historic photograph
Ow High, c1905.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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This rare historic photograph captures Ow High in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Ow High is the name that sets this portrait apart, and the record preserves it, which is not true of every sitter Edward S. Curtis photographed. Curtis made pictures like this around 1905, while he was assembling the material for *The North American Indian*, a multivolume work that paired photographs with written ethnographic notes. The catalog highlights the sitter's clothing, and the picture records dress from that period, when Curtis set out to document traditional attire and ceremonial regalia across many Native nations.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesLC no. 17. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsOw High. Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,278 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-194702

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