Wishham bowl – Historic 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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Wishham bowl
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The Wishham bowl is the subject here, a wooden vessel photographed around 1910 and recorded under the Tlakluit, the name Edward S. Curtis used for the Tlingit people of the Alaska and Pacific Northwest coast. Curtis made this image for *The North American Indian*, his multivolume survey of Native peoples issued from 1907 to 1930, where it appears on page 140 of volume 8. Carved and shaped wooden bowls were everyday tools for serving food and important objects in many Northwest Coast communities, so the picture records a utensil within a living material culture. Curtis's staged and carefully composed studio style means the object was presented for its form and craftsmanship as much as for its use.
| Created / published | c1910. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1910. |
| Notes | J139771 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Curtis no. 3014-09. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, v. 8, p. 140. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1910. Tlakluit Indians--Arts & crafts--1910. Bowls (Tableware)--1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,283 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-194769 |
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