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[Tah-Lay, Apache? Indian, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing blanket and headband] – Historic Photograph Print

[Tah-Lay, Apache? Indian, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing blanket and headband], c1903. — historic photograph
[Tah-Lay, Apache? Indian, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing blanket and headband], c1903.. Historic photograph from the Native Americans collection.

(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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Tah-Lay, whose record carries a question mark beside the Apache label, faces the camera squarely, with a blanket over his shoulders and a headband across his brow. Edward S. Curtis made the portrait around 1903, while he was assembling *The North American Indian*, a multivolume survey of Native peoples of the West built on posed, studio-style portraits. The print carries Curtis's copyright mark and his catalog number 113, and its plain background and direct gaze show the formal conventions he favored. Viewers today often weigh such images against questions about how Curtis arranged his sitters.

Created / publishedc1903.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesH33844 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 113. Copyright by E.S. Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsTah-Lay. Indians of North America--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,742 × 4,667 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222166

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