A Hopi woman – 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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A Hopi woman comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Catalogued by Edward S. Curtis as no. 189-04, this portrait appeared in volume 12 of *The North American Indian*, the multi-volume series he published between 1907 and 1930. The record identifies the sitter only as a Hopi woman, which was typical of ethnographic portraiture of the period, when sitters were often recorded as representatives of a people rather than by name. Curtis worked with Hopi communities in northeastern Arizona in these years, hoping to document traditional dress, hairstyles and daily life before what he expected to be rapid cultural change. Viewers today may want to consider both the care in the composition and the question of how much of the sitter's own identity the image preserves.
| Created / published | c1904. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Curtis no. 189-04. LC no. 78. 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, p. 411. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Arizona--Women--1900-1910. Hopi Indians--Women--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,742 × 4,662 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222287 |
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