Ow High – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Ow High. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Ow High is the sitter named in this c1905 portrait, one of the individual studies Edward S. Curtis made while documenting Native American peoples across the western United States and Canada. Curtis spent roughly three decades on his multivolume series *The North American Indian*, and his portraits were often staged with traditional clothing, regalia, and studio backdrops that shaped how viewers understood Indigenous life. The record files the image under clothing and dress, so the garments, adornment, and posing are central to reading it. Today Curtis's work is valued for its craft and also read critically as a record shaped by his own choices.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | LC no. 17. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Ow High. Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--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-222158 |
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