Material: Albumen print on board
Date: 1880
Measurements: 4¼ × 6½ inches
Provenance: Private collection, Utah
Note: Subject identified in period inscription as "Moqui Indian Squaw Water Carrier"; Moqui was the 19th century term for the Hopi people.
Cabinet card photograph of a Hopi woman carrying water, captured by Henry Brown, photographer operating out of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Documents daily life among one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in North America. The remote mesa communities of present-day northeastern Arizona were rarely accessible to frontier photographers of the era, making photographs of Hopi subjects by Santa Fe photographers from this period particularly scarce. From a private collection in Utah.
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Material: Albumen print on board
Date: 1880
Measurements: 4¼ × 6½ inches
Provenance: Private collection, Utah
Note: Subject identified in period inscription as "Moqui Indian Squaw Water Carrier"; Moqui was the 19th century term for the Hopi people.
Cabinet card photograph of a Hopi woman carrying water, captured by Henry Brown, photographer operating out of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Documents daily life among one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in North America. The remote mesa communities of present-day northeastern Arizona were rarely accessible to frontier photographers of the era, making photographs of Hopi subjects by Santa Fe photographers from this period particularly scarce. From a private collection in Utah.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand
