Hopi woman making pottery – Antique 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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Step back in time with Hopi woman making pottery, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Working in Arizona around 1910, a Hopi woman shapes a clay vessel in this large silver gelatin print from the Detroit Publishing Company. Hopi women have long been the potters in their communities, building vessels by hand with coils and smoothing the walls with paddle and anvil, a craft passed between generations and tied to villages on the high mesas of northeastern Arizona. The company sold views like this to a national audience eager for images of Native life, and this mammoth-plate print, about 43 by 53 centimeters, preserves the material details of the work at a time of rapid change in the region.
| Created / published | c1910. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : silver gelatin ; image 43 x 53.2 cm. |
| Genre | Mammoth plates.Silver gelatin prints. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co." Copyright deposit no. J148214. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 015276. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Arizona. Hopi Indians--Arts & crafts. Hopi Indians--Women. Pottery. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 779 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-79101 |
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