Vash Gon--Jicarilla – Historic 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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Vash Gon--Jicarilla
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Vash Gon, a Jicarilla Apache man, is the named sitter here, and Edward S. Curtis recorded him around 1904 or 1905 as part of his effort to document Native peoples of the American West. The Jicarilla homeland lies in northern New Mexico, and Curtis's portraits from that period were made during a long project that eventually produced the twenty-volume series The North American Indian, where this image appeared in the supplemental volume. Curtis often posed his sitters in traditional dress and against plain backdrops, a choice that reflects his romantic view of vanishing cultures, so the portrait is best read as both a record of an individual and a product of that particular photographic vision.
| Created / published | 1904, c1905. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Curtis no. 200-04. 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, p. 20. |
| Subjects | Vash Gon. Indians of North America--New Mexico--1900-1910. Jicarilla Indians--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,757 × 4,677 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222159 |
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