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Big Head [A] – Vintage Wall Art

Big Head [A], c1905. — historic photograph
Big Head [A], c1905.. Historic photograph from the Native Americans 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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A window into the past: Big Head [A], 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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A portrait of a man identified only as Big Head, this print belongs to Edward S. Curtis's effort to record Indigenous people across North America in the early 1900s. Curtis made the image around 1905 and catalogued it under his own number, 260-05. His portraits of this period were often carefully posed and framed, so they show both the sitter and the photographer's choices about how Native people should appear. Viewers today read them as both documentation and as products of a particular, outsider's vision.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesCurtis no. 260-05. LC no. 85. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsBig Head. Indians of North America--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,737 × 4,652 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222279

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