Whyay-Ring – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Whyay-Ring in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Whyay-Ring, a member of the Santa Clara Pueblo, sits for this portrait, one of many studies Edward S. Curtis made of Native people for his multivolume work *The North American Indian*. Santa Clara is a Tewa-speaking pueblo in northern New Mexico, and Curtis worked among Tewa communities in the first decade of the twentieth century, pairing individual portraits with ceremonial and daily-life scenes. His posed studies reflect the photographer's choices about setting, lighting and dress as much as the sitter's everyday life, which makes them worth reading with that in mind.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H71059 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1799-05. |
| Subjects | Whyay-Ring. Indians of North America--New Mexico--Santa Clara Pueblo--1900-1910. Tewa Indians--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,292 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-188586 |
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