The wife of Ow High – Antique 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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The wife of Ow High
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The record identifies this sitter only as the wife of Ow High, so her portrait is tied to her family rather than to a named individual of her own. Taken around 1905, it is one of the numbered negatives from Edward S. Curtis's long effort to document Native American life, work that would eventually fill his multivolume series *The North American Indian*, published between 1907 and 1930. Curtis often posed his sitters in traditional dress against plain backdrops, so viewers today read these images both as a record of particular people and as the product of his own artistic choices.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Curtis no. 242-05. LC no. 88. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Ow High--Family. Indians of North America--Women--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,742 × 4,672 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222281 |
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