Wedding ceremony / Mopope. – Historic Reproduction
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(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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Step back in time with Wedding ceremony / Mopope., a historic print rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Wedding ceremony / Mopope.
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Steve Mopope's watercolor of a Kiowa wedding ceremony is one of the more intimate scenes in a body of work that otherwise leans toward ceremonial and dance subjects. Mopope, a Kiowa painter from Oklahoma, was one of the artists who worked with Oscar Brousse Jacobson, the Oklahoma art professor who encouraged Kiowa and Caddo painters in the 1920s and helped bring their watercolors to wider attention. This color plate was reproduced in Jacobson's 1929 book of Kiowa watercolors, published in Nice, France, and it was later cited in a Library of Congress resource guide on Native peoples. The picture gives a rare view of courtship and marriage customs in the Kiowa community during that decade.
| Created / published | [1929] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : color. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1920-1930.Watercolors Reproductions 1920-1930.Photomechanical prints Color 1920-1930. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Kiowa Indian art watercolor paintings in color by the Indians of Oklahoma / by Oscar Brousse Jacobson. Nice (France) : C. Szwedicki, [c1929]. Photomechanical reproduction of watercolor painting by Steve Mopope. Published in: Many nations: A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Indian and Alaska native peoples of the United States / edited by Patrick Frazier and the Publishing Office. Washington : Library of Congress, 1996, p. 70. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--Oklahoma--1920-1930. Indians of North America--Social life--Oklahoma--1920-1930. Kiowa Indians--Arts & crafts--1920-1930. Kiowa Indians--Social life--1920-1930. Weddings--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,885 × 3,767 px · prints to 10 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218668 |
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