Navaho Belle – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Navaho Belle, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Titled "Navaho Belle," this c1904 portrait belongs to Edward S. Curtis's broader effort to document Native peoples of the American West. Between about 1900 and 1930, Curtis photographed Indigenous communities for his multivolume work *The North American Indian*, and his portraits were often posed and carefully lit to emphasize dignity and traditional appearance. The title reflects the romantic, idealizing language common at the time, so today viewers read such pictures both as a record of Navajo women of the period and as a window onto how outside photographers framed their subjects.
| Created / published | c1904. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | LC no. 9. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Women--Southwest, New--1900-1910. Navajo Indians--Women--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,732 × 4,632 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222185 |
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