Snake River Indians' scalp dance – 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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Snake River Indians' scalp dance
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The dancers are the focus of this stereograph, which its caption identifies as a scalp dance performed by the Snake River Indians. The card dates to about 1902 and carries a copyright line for C.H. Graves and the Universal Photo Art Co., commercial publishers whose stereo views were sold for viewing in parlor stereoscopes. By that period, dances like this were often staged for visiting photographers and tourists rather than performed only as traditional ceremonies, so the picture reflects the market for images of Native people as much as the dance itself. The caption data is old and unverified, so the exact occasion and participants should be treated with caution.
| Created / published | c1902. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by C.H. Graves - The Universal Photo Art Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; Indians--Dances...; Indian tribes--Central P.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 811 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-132980 |
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