We-Ton – 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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This rare historic photograph captures We-Ton in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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We-Ton is the named sitter in this c1900 portrait by Edward S. Curtis, one of the Library of Congress's Curtis Collection prints, catalogued under the subject of Native American clothing and dress. Curtis spent much of his career from the 1890s into the 1920s photographing Indigenous people across the western United States and Canada for his multivolume work *The North American Indian*, which was published between 1907 and 1930. His portraits often emphasized traditional garments, ornaments and hairstyles, and he sometimes arranged or adjusted costume and setting to suit his vision of an older way of life. The image is worth viewing with that purpose in mind, as both a record of dress at the time and a product of Curtis's own choices about how to present his subjects.
| Created / published | c1900. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900.Photographic prints 1900. |
| Notes | Curtis no. 77. LC no. 72. Copyright by Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | We-Ton. Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,747 × 4,662 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222290 |
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