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Group of Navahos in Tesakod Canyon – Antique Wall Art

Group of Navahos in Tesakod Canyon, c1904. — historic photograph
Group of Navahos in Tesakod Canyon, c1904.. 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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Step back in time with Group of Navahos in Tesakod Canyon, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Edward S. Curtis made this c1904 view of a group of Navajo people in Tesakod Canyon, a setting he returned to in his effort to document Native life across the Southwest and Plains. Curtis, a photographer and ethnographer, worked at the turn of the twentieth century to record Indigenous communities before what he believed were rapid cultural changes, producing thousands of images that became part of his larger multi-volume project, The North American Indian. The canyon location places the subjects within the landscape that shaped Navajo life, and the print is worth noticing for how the figures are set against the rock walls.

Created / publishedc1904.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesLC no. 12. Copyright by Edward S. Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsIndians of North America--1900-1910. Navajo Indians--1900-1910. Canyons--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,632 × 3,712 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222162

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