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[An Acoma woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] – Historic Photograph Print

[An Acoma woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], c1904. — historic photograph
[An Acoma woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], c1904.. 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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This rare historic photograph captures [An Acoma woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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An Acoma woman, photographed head-and-shoulders and facing the camera, is one of the Edward S. Curtis portraits held by the Library of Congress. Curtis made his large body of Native American portraits in the early 1900s, working with a commitment to recording traditional dress, hairstyles and facial features that he feared were disappearing. Acoma Pueblo, perched on a mesa in west-central New Mexico, is among the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the United States, and its people were frequent subjects of his camera. Viewers today often read such images with caution, since Curtis staged and retouched many of his sitters.

Created / publishedc1904.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesEdward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). LC no. 75.
SubjectsIndians of North America--Women--1900-1910. Acoma Indians--Women--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,747 × 4,662 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222278

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