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I want to produce an irrefutable record of a race doomed to extinction--to show this Indian as he was in the normal, noble life so people will know he was no debauched vagabond, but a man of proud stature and noble heritage.
Edward Curtis
EDWARD S. CURTIS (1868-1952)
Tapa, Antelope Water, Taos, 1905
Details
EDWARD S. CURTIS (1868-1952)
Tapa, Antelope Water, Taos, 1905
platinum print
notation '334-05' (in the negative); signed in ink (on the recto)
image/sheet: 15¾ x 11 5/8in. (40 x 29.5cm.)
mount: 16¾ x 12 3/8in. (42.5 x 31.5cm.)
Tapa, Antelope Water, Taos, 1905
platinum print
notation '334-05' (in the negative); signed in ink (on the recto)
image/sheet: 15¾ x 11 5/8in. (40 x 29.5cm.)
mount: 16¾ x 12 3/8in. (42.5 x 31.5cm.)
Literature
Cardozo, Sacred Legacy: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Simon and Schuster, 2000, p. 115
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