Primitive style of hair dressing--Hopi – Vintage 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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Primitive style of hair dressing--Hopi
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Two rounded whorls of hair bound over the ears identify this young Hopi girl's style, the squash-blossom dressing traditionally worn by unmarried girls. Edward S. Curtis, who spent decades recording Native communities for his twenty-volume *The North American Indian*, made the photograph around 1921 and published it as plate 423 in a supplement volume. The title's word "primitive" reflects the outlook of that project, which framed its subjects as vanishing and old-fashioned. Today the image is valued as a record of Hopi hair and dress in the 1920s, though its posed composition reflects Curtis's own choices.
| Created / published | c1921. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930. |
| Notes | Curtis no. 186. LC no. 19. 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. 12, pl. 423. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Children--1920-1930. Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1920-1930. Hopi Indians--Children--1920-1930. Hopi Indians--Clothing & dress--1920-1930. Girls--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,781 × 4,706 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222214 |
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