Hopi (Moqui), northeastern Arizona
1880
Albumen print on board
4.25" / 10.8 cm x 6.5" / 16.5 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Utah
Note: The subject is identified in the period inscription as "Moqui Indian Squaw Water Carrier"; Moqui was the 19th-century term used by outsiders for the Hopi people.
This cabinet card was captured by Henry Brown, a photographer operating out of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and depicts a Hopi woman carrying water in a vessel balanced on her head, a subject that documents daily life in one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in North America. The remote mesa communities of northeastern Arizona were rarely accessible to frontier photographers of the era, making attributed photographs of Hopi subjects from this period particularly scarce. The period inscription on the mount provides direct documentary context, connecting the image to its original distribution and identification.
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Hopi (Moqui), northeastern Arizona
1880
Albumen print on board
4.25" / 10.8 cm x 6.5" / 16.5 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Utah
Note: The subject is identified in the period inscription as "Moqui Indian Squaw Water Carrier"; Moqui was the 19th-century term used by outsiders for the Hopi people.
This cabinet card was captured by Henry Brown, a photographer operating out of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and depicts a Hopi woman carrying water in a vessel balanced on her head, a subject that documents daily life in one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in North America. The remote mesa communities of northeastern Arizona were rarely accessible to frontier photographers of the era, making attributed photographs of Hopi subjects from this period particularly scarce. The period inscription on the mount provides direct documentary context, connecting the image to its original distribution and identification.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
