Mosa--Mohave – Antique 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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Mosa--Mohave 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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Mosa, a Mohave woman, wears painted designs on her face and jewelry in this portrait, the kind of personal adornment Edward S. Curtis set out to record. He made the image around 1903, and it later appeared as plate 61 in the supplement to *The North American Indian*, his multivolume survey published in Seattle from 1907 to 1930. Curtis traveled widely to document Native peoples whom he believed were changing quickly, and his portraits often emphasize ceremonial dress and ornament. The Mohave lived along the Colorado River in what is now Arizona and California, and the face painting and jewelry here offer a close look at the dress and presentation of their women at the start of the twentieth century.
| Created / published | c1903. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Curtis no. 141. LC no. 82. Copyright by E.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. 2, pl. 61. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Women--1900-1910. Mohave Indians--Women--1900-1910. Face painting--1900-1910. Jewelry--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,747 × 4,667 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222276 |
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