Cha Cah Tana – Antique Wall Art
(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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Cha Cah Tana comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Cha Cah Tana is the subject of this portrait, which the Library of Congress catalogs as Curtis number 112 in the Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis made such studio and field portraits across the American West in the early 1900s as part of his ambitious effort to document Native American peoples, a project that eventually produced the multivolume series *The North American Indian*, published from 1907 to 1930. Curtis often posed his sitters in traditional dress and used soft, deliberate lighting, so the images reflect his artistic choices as well as his subjects. Viewers today read such portraits both as historical records and as evidence of how photographers shaped the public image of Indigenous people.
| Created / published | c1903. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Curtis no. 112. LC no. 26. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Cha Cah Tana. Indians of North America--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,757 × 4,667 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222190 |
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