Chideh--Apache – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Chideh--Apache in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Chideh--Apache
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The record names the sitter as Chideh, an Apache, and the subject list highlights jewelry, which sets this portrait's focus on personal adornment rather than setting. Edward S. Curtis made it around 1903 as part of his project to document Native peoples of North America, and it was later published as plate 18 in the supplement to *The North American Indian* (1907-1930). Curtis often arranged his sitters' clothing and ornaments for the camera, so the jewelry here reflects both the sitter's own dress and his staging choices. Viewers today read such images both as records of Apache material culture and as products of a photographer's particular vision of his subjects.
| Created / published | c1903. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Curtis no. 124. LC no. 33. 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. 1, pl. 18. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--1900-1910. Apache Indians--1900-1910. Jewelry--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,742 × 4,652 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222202 |
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